[rscho]

That's also true. Now the million $ question:

Whom would you like our society to rely on to generate quality work?

I don't think there is a satisfactory answer to this question. Public research becomes more and more of an industry every year with the publish-or-perish game, while a solely private solution is obviously open to very biased conclusions.

There is no smart solution to a stupid problem. But the truth is that _as an institution_ the NHS is the only actor whose mission is to optimize towards public health.

[SpicyLemonZest]

In most fields, our society relies on private industry to generate quality work, even when the work is very important and doing it wrong might kill people. I'm not an anarchist, I do recognize there are reasons that the government should provide some things. But the idea that private industry uniformly produces bad results because they don't care about anything but profit just seems silly to me. Producing good results is profitable!

[mturmon]

> In most fields, our society relies on private industry to generate quality work ...

This is just not true. Military, police, courts? What does "most fields" even mean?

[SpicyLemonZest]

My job, food, apartment, utilities, entertainment, all come from private companies.