Hi, I’m economics student doing research before debate about “Necessity of public sector”. I would be very grateful is you could help me showing some examples I can use.
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Looking for examples of privat sector replaces public one
Hi, I’m economics student doing research before debate about “Necessity of public sector”. I would be very grateful is you could help me showing some examples I can use.
Hi Szymon,
Kaleb Matson has a long list of private sector alternatives here: http://archive.lewrockwell.com/orig13/matson-k1.1.1.html
Graham Wright does a dramatic reading of the same material here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k0od6RZDOtk
From the article: “For education, imagine how the Kahn Academy with its incredible K-12 education available to anyone anywhere for absolutely free could undermine the current costly and ineffective state-run school system. For college level there’s MIT’s OpenCourseWare, one among many programs pioneering the trend of making the most prestigious college educations available for free. As for gaining an official degree (a failed approach to credentialing,) Mozilla’s Open Badge project may present a superior model for skills-based credentialing. All these could work together to make education ubiquitous and free, putting the state out of the education business. What about other local resources like public services and utilities? Think about the private firefighting companies like Wildland Defense Systems (hired by insurance companies), or even entirely privatized cities like Celebration, Florida. For transportation (moving beyond privatized toll roads), how about the Tokyo Expressway, a free-to-the-public, privately owned and profitable highway? Isn’t this essentially what parking lots (a substantial percentage of the paved surfaces in the US) are already? For medicine, the Surgery Center of Oklahoma is obliterating its state-subsidized competitors by providing superior healthcare at a fraction of the cost, providing a model that could make “The Affordable Health Care Act” irrelevant. Social safety nets? Start a mutual aid society. For trade, the Silk Road (a black market Amazon) is offering a marketplace with no third party limitations on voluntary transactions between individuals. As for the state’s attempt to wield power by claiming the sole right to sanction who you hire, to limit the division of labor, to block your access to foreign talent with immigration barriers, and to subsidize inefficiency through unions (with their resulting protective tariffs and wars) -they can be easily undermined through sites like E-lance or offshore office space like the BlueSeed project. Currency monopolies, sanctions & capital controls? No problem- BitCoin or gold-based debit cards. Looking to the future, what about a Tricorder device that helps increase the abundance of accessible diagnostics and doctors, further decentralizing control of the medical industry? Could advances in 3-D printing someday radically decentralize the production industry? How do you compete with the state in more difficult resources like geography, dispute settlement and defense? Seasteading or free trade zones could offer an exciting alternative to the monopolization of land by nation states. For dispute settlement, try private arbitration like Judge.me….”
A very good example of the private sector replacing things in the public sector is the internet.
The internet was originally designed for military installations to be able to communicate with each other. Now, the internet is dominated by the private sector.
The US post office is part of the public sector. Now, private sector delivery companies like UPS and FedEx and DHL are taking a lot of business away from the USPS.
Are these the kinds of examples you are looking for?
The most immediate and dramatic example I can see, of the private sector out competing, and partially replacing the public sector would be Disneyland,.These two communities have many widely perceived governmental handicaps;highly variable populations, lots of under educated, lower income, young, and minority residents etc. Despite this, because the residents are either employees or customers, rather than chattel, these communities ( on $55 per resident, per day admission fees) have very low crime, and extraordinary resident satisfaction.
” What about the roads”? Disney has roads! ” Who will protect us”? Disney’s security is great!
