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You Cannot Run a Public Service Like a Business, and Here's Why

Scriptonite Daily | 05.04.2013 20:18 | Analysis | Social Struggles | Workers' Movements | London | World

One of the greatest myths of our time is that public services can be made more efficient if we run them as businesses. The commercialisation of our public services has been a manifest failure, and the response offered by the mainstream parties is that we simply haven’t commercialised them enough. What they fail to understand is that a public service and a business are inherently different beasts and asking one to behave as the other is like asking a fish to ride a bicycle.



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05.04.2013 21:15

"One of the greatest myths of our time is that public services can be made more efficient if we run them as businesses."

Unfortunatelly, that statement is untrue, it is the very reason why capatalism does work, that is what it's all about. The diasater lies in the philosiphy and the greedy bastards that uphold these values. That's all. Good luck with all the rest.

Burnside