Yeah because that's always happened and history. CONSTANTLY. We needed government around forever to protect us from those big evil corporations giving us exploding devices and poisonous products. Give me a fucking break. Also, like any corporation would be STUPID enough to continuously sell something that's poisonous....
YEAH, THEY'RE GOING TO STAY IN BUSINESS FOR QUITE A WHILE.......... These are the oldest, most juvenile and regurgitated arguments FOR government and frankly I get a bit jaded having to point out how (a) historically inaccurate they are, since this abyssmal fantasy land where poisonous swingsets and exploding juicers are being sold everywhere just didn't exist and (b)In a real free market, ONE WHERE IS NO GIANT NANNY STATE TO DOLE OUT FAVORS FOR SPECIAL CORPORATIONS, businesses have to compete with eachother and therefore the last PR disaster they would want in a competition-rich environment is to be accused of selling a dangerous product. Only when you inject government and their favors for lobbyists do you get less competition, and thus less caring about selling poisonous products.
If you corner a market you can sell anything you want. How many cable or internet companys do you get to choose from? one? What incentive does a corporation have to research if a product is going to harm people, you say it's because other company's will take over a market they have complete control over? Actually when a product is found harmful they just stop using it and switch to something else feigning ignorance.
Everyone that thinks private corperations are the best in every situation only see the good side of it so I was pointing out the flaws, and I always thought private corporations were better, JUST NOT WITH PRIVATE PRISONS AND RIGHTLY SO.
Also, the key difference, and most important, between government and private enterprise is that private enterprise operates based off of profits, which are achieved by frugal management of resources and appeal to the consumer.. Government actually operates off of LOSSES: And yes, it does hire and contract private workers, but the way the government finances these firms completely throws things like prices and profits out of the window. Government contracted firms or gov't bureaus themselves will actually find ways to prolong projects and devise ways to complete them as inefficiently as possible. The reason: there is no price structure; When the contractor/bureau is asked how much money they need for their budget, they can literally state any price they want (within reason). This is because the money government has to dole out HAS BEEN STOLEN via taxation, or has been simply stroked into existence by a banker at a computer at our central bank, the Federal Reserve. Its not earned, its not a scarce resource. There are no prices, just large sums of cash pushed around to get what you want done, which usually achieves you a vote in the district where you pushed money and jobs into(money that had to come from somewhere else). See the difference? I sure fucking hope so, because that was long winded.
Already said I prefer privatization slightly over government in this aspect.
The government doesn't give a fuck about the health of its population at all. The government is millions of people. Local governments. State governments. City governments. Its impartial. You have this idea that government loves you or something, like its your mother. Dude, its a scam. They tell you that so they can keep taking your money (taxation) for not actually doing anything. They don't do shit. They're lawyers and politicians. Of course they're going to tell you they only want to protect you and keep you safe. Of course they're going to make you believe they care about you. They don't. They don't even know you. THey just want your money. Scratch that: they want as many peoples' money as possible for the least amount of effort.
I was talking about who has more incentive, and for your second part, I don't know who's strawman you are beating up but it isn't mine.
Like I said, don't get me wrong. There are shitty corporations out there. Free market capitalism isn't perfect. NOTHING is perfect. But I'd rather trust in a system that has millions and millions of actors determining the outcome of my economy than a few thousand in Washington DC.
same?
Oh oh, and as for "dur the private corporations fund the war on drugs, durhur!" Please, show me the STATISTICS and cite the resources SHOWING ME that ONLY private corporations are the funders for the war on drugs. No doubt there are a few corporations that pour funding into it, because its profitable for them (security firms, etc). And to hell with them. But just fucking ask yourself, WHY AND HOW DID IT BECOME SO PROFITABLE?
You are raping that strawman. I never said government doesn't fund the war on drugs, I was pointing out how disgusting it is that private prisons lobby for it, so they get more customers, which is actually worse. I didn't say private company's are all lobbying for the war on drugs, just the ones that stand to profit from it.
Oh yeah one more thing about the copper arsenate plated swingsets: You do understand highschool chemistry, right? Like, sodium and chlorine are poisonous by themselves, but when combined make salt. You were taught that shit in school, weren't you?
Even if it's not poisonous you know that's not the point I was making.
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by dagrimreefah » Wed Nov 12, 2014 12:15 pm 
