Under free market, all companies can talk all they want that all the stuff they put there is for my own good. However, if the product is overpriced or if it doesnt serve my interest to get the product, I just dont buy it.
No companies, full with corruption and inefficiency, will last in the market, unless it is governments companies.
The same mechanism doesnt apply to governments program.
Indonesian governments build airplanes. It doesnt make business sense. Then every one is required to buy air plane stocks. Then governments sell the planes to Indonesians airways companies.
Bad business gets smaller, smaller, and gone. Bad governments business gets bigger and bigger. There is no check and balance mechanism whatsoever to ensure that when governments spend money the money worth spending.
When governments build public school, people simply says that it benefits the people. Yet, how do we know that the benefits worth the cost? Governments public school can be plagued with corruption and efficiency. What are the intensives that the school boards will care about the kids interests when deciding curriculum?
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