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RE: A Chance Encounter With The Dollar Vigilante: Jeff Berwick
Steemit makes me realize how GK Chesterton was right from the beginning. Quote from "The Man who was Thursday" : “You've got that eternal idiotic idea that if anarchy came it would come from the poor. Why should it? The poor have been rebels, but they have never been anarchists; they have more interest than anyone else in there being some decent government. The poor man really has a stake in the country. The rich man hasn't; he can go away to New Guinea in a yacht. The poor have sometimes objected to being governed badly; the rich have always objected to being governed at all. Aristocrats were always anarchists”
I'm sorry, but the free market cannot do it all alone.
Well said, the free market uses the poor and makes the rich, well, richer. Government is the balance. Private companies are not interested in providing services, they are interested in profit.
Of course there is an alternative, mutual societies. In this model every customer is an owner and therefore gets treated properly, and the society takes a broader long term view rather than making a quick buck. Some government services could be run by mutual societies.