> It's refreshing to see skepticism of both market-based and government-based solutions.
This in my opinion is a false dichotomy. The government can be owned/operated by coorporations or by the people or can be an entity in itself.
What I feel is missed by people leaning towards the idea of competition is that it is not a sustainable model under the current framework of ideas. If you optimise a society purely based on profitability, competition is the enemy, since it hinders individual businesses from maximising their profits. Hence the massive business consolidation we have seen in the last decade across the globe.
If you want competition because you want different ideas to be tested, then we need to explain what we want entities to compete for. Focusing on optimising one variable only, i.e. profit, will not work. We need new ideas.
This in my opinion is a false dichotomy. The government can be owned/operated by coorporations or by the people or can be an entity in itself.
What I feel is missed by people leaning towards the idea of competition is that it is not a sustainable model under the current framework of ideas. If you optimise a society purely based on profitability, competition is the enemy, since it hinders individual businesses from maximising their profits. Hence the massive business consolidation we have seen in the last decade across the globe.
If you want competition because you want different ideas to be tested, then we need to explain what we want entities to compete for. Focusing on optimising one variable only, i.e. profit, will not work. We need new ideas.