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by kwhitefoot 3303 days ago
In some circumstances

> the private sector's legendary efficiency advantage

is in fact:

  the private sector's _mythical_ efficiency advantage
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Right; my point is that your "some" circumstances are precisely those under which there is no competitive pressure.
(Which is to say, the private sector very much does have an efficiency advantage when there is a competitive market. Because only then is everyone in that market personally motivated, by the "vice" of greed, to be virtuously efficient. The only exception is what some people call a "monopoly par excellence"; a firm without competitors which nevertheless acts as though it has them.)