Worldview: governments bad, companies good. Why?

Because goverments don’t have skin in the game. Business people play with their own money, so don’t want to waste anything. Besides, if they do a bad job they’ll go bankrupt, whereas government agencies just get new funding no matter how bad a job they do.

I mean, there’s some logic to this line of reasoning, no doubt. But you could plead the reverse and there’s logic to that as well.

People working for government actually care about what they do, they have the public interest at heart, not just their own bankaccount. Government employees know that they’re using taxpayer money, and that they’ll be held accountable if they waste it. Business employees don’t give a shit about about their companies, particulary the very big multinational conglomerates, that we have so many of these days. Any money made only goes to the boss anyway, and he’s an asshole, or the shareholders, and so are they. Aslong as we get away with it, who gives a fuck what gets done with all the money.

But this worldview ‘governments bad, companies good’, is certainly dominant among DOGE folks and rarely questioned. The west had to have this worldview, or else the ideas of “communism can only ever fail no matter what exact shape or form it takes” and “capitalism is the only thing that works” crumble. Let’s be real here, the inefficiencies of capitalism are never ever questioned. Surely ads and marketing are for the benefit of all right. Spending tons to get everyone to smoke and drink sugarwater and alcohol, not by free choice but by clever manipulation. That shit is not inefficient in any way is it? Big pharma spending more money on marketing than on research is not inefficient in any way is it? No, quite the reverse, scientist getting government funds to do fundamental research, with no business agenda in mind, surely that would be inefficient. Companies just need to be companies and everything will be fine. Don’t think about it, just go with it. It’s our religion.

Is it me or do remotes have to many buttons these days?

These kids have a hatred for those who bomb and starve em, bunch of antisemites, if they grow up chances are they’ll take revenge, that’s why they need to be starved now. Makes a lot of sense /s