Comment by Ma8ee
5 days ago
I'm pointing out that there is an implied assumption that private always is better than public, and that assumption in many cases is just plain wrong. Not in all cases, market economy works great for many things, but there are also many cases it plainly sucks. When you warn that private initiatives might be crowded out, it is implicit that those are more desirable than public initiatives.
This kind of discussion is a bit off topic here, but I think it is important to remind people that the idea that private always is better than public is ideological dogma, not science. But your latest comment makes me believe you agree with that.
Yep, we agree in total. You often hear the opposite dogma too, that governments are wonderfully efficient and all markets are broken.
A moderate path, like what we see in the Scandinavian countries, looks to be a better model.