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by SpicyLemonZest 2221 days ago
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!
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> 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?

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