I have an economics background so to speak.
It is absolutely a fact, not a conspiracy theory, that the private sector has been aiming to take over the public sector any where they can.
And it has been happening and continues to happen on a large scale. I would actualy call it an inevitability or a force of nature or whatever.
Especially with the modern distinction of a “judicial person”, there has been somewhat of an erosion in peopls mind’s of what a “company” actually is.
A company is NEVER a person and imho shouldn’t be referred to as a “judicial person” either.
A company is more like a dragon or a great unclean deamon of nurgle or some sort of monster.
It has only two concerns: To eat and to grow fat.
Nothing else matters to a company and on a larger scale in economics as a whole (at least with the western philosophy we apply to economics).
As such it is inevitable that companies would like to expand to/take over the public sector at one point or another.
The question here is: How far can a government let them? Where is it beneficial and which aspects of a society should firmly remain in the public’s hands?
That’s where things get murky and of course the economy sides answer has, is and always will be “all of them”.
In the US it went as far as education with the famous Coca Cola printed/sponsored math books and schools, where all the kids are obese cause they are drinking cheap coke from vending machines all day and can’t do basic maths unless it’s in the context of Coca Cola corp…
That example was so unashamed, brazen and unapologetic and the effects so clear that the consensus in the west has become that education has to remain a public matter. But even that is still and always remain under attack and put into question.
Telecommunication was one of the first to go here in Europe followed by public transport. The last decades the focus has been on medical care.
But Mail and education among many others are of course still firmly on the table and it won’t ever stop, it can’t.
Which brings us to the main issue (imho). I have been mulling this over since I was a teenager and I call it the “glue sniffing conundrum”. Hear me out:
We all went to school.
We all know there were kids that wanted to sit in the first 2 rows, so they can hear the teacher well, read the blackboard well etc. because they were there to LEARN.
And we all know there were kids that always sat in the 2 back rows because they were more concerned with goofing around and sniffing/licking their glue sticks.
Now ask yourself this:
Which of those kids went into public service/became politicians and which of these kids went into the private sector where the money is and become for example lobbyists for big pharma or big auto etc. etc.?
You know the answer as well as me.
If you were in the first two rows, you likely were smart enough to put 2 and 2 together and realize C.R.E.A.M. and thus went into the private sector, where the money is.
As a result, the smart kids end up in the private sector as lobbyists etc. and are running circles around the glue sniffers who ended up in government.
Did you all know for example that with all them construction sites all across your country, these red/white striped markers of which there is like hundreds per construction site and that are standing around for months if not years until the construction is finished are RENTED OUT TO THE GOVERNMENT FOR A DAILY FEE ?!?
I shit you not. And we are not talking cents here!
One of those red/white markers is like 1 or 2 EUR something PER DAY! Times a hundred for one construction site that may last for half a year?
Now THAT’S MONEY AND MARGIN BABY! That is GOOD business for the economy.
But whoever agreed to that system on the government side, instead of buying these red/white markers in bulk for cents from china, was definitely a glue sniffer.
Until we solve the glue sniffing conundrum, things can’t change imho
