| This is not the same thing. The state is ideally suited to manufacture public goods, more efficiently than private enterprise. That means armies, judiciaries, policing municipalities, governance amongst others. They address issues like management of the commons. This does not translate into scaled care - care for orphans (from the article) still needs large numbers of skilled manpower, which is in short supply across the world. These services are also often underfunded, since they are not really a first class citizen for voters. Voters today, are also deeply targeted by emotional campaigns and identity campaigns, since that is the current political state of the art. The state can be efficient, but some things don’t scale unless they are also resourced correctly. Such services will also be amongst the first to cut, since “X will render it obsolete”, is a promise as old as time, and aren’t directly tied to overall societal survival. Compared to something like defense / emergency funding |