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Killing_Spark@feddit.de 2 months agoYou’d rather entrust almost every aspect of your live to the benevolence of some people that do not have any oversight by the populous that they have power over by the means of controlling the capital?
DreamlandLividity@lemmy.world 2 months ago
I trust the greed of these people. If people are willing to pay for something, at least some of them will invest in it to profit off of it.
Killing_Spark@feddit.de 2 months ago
There is one problem with this: what’s profitable and what’s beneficial for society do not necessarily align.
DreamlandLividity@lemmy.world 2 months ago
Am I saying that we should give corporations a free run of the country? No, we should legislate them until they are a model of virtue.
But the smart way to do it is to align their greed with our interests. As an example, creating a carbon tax is much better then government trying to implements specific green initiatives. The corporate greed will find efficient and innovative way to reduce emissions compared to what the governments do.
If that is not possible, then just legislate them normally. Or even make a government run/funded competitors. In Slovak republic, insurance companies are private except one that is government run and serves as a lowest bar that others have to compete with.
Killing_Spark@feddit.de 2 months ago
One example where that doesn’t seem to work is public infrastructure. There is just no way to make this profitable and simultaneously provide a service that actually meets the needs of the public in terms of availability and price.