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Slydie

1884 Posts

2 hours ago

#96021

On February 25 2025 20:57 KT_Elwood wrote:
The efficiency of the private sector also comes from FAILING businesses.

Small businesses average 8 1/2 years of lifespan.

Know what shouldn't fail or be sold after 8 1/2 years?

Public sector.

There is a lot more to it. A private company can fail because it is too good, for example by becoming a threat to a giant Corp, which proceeds to buy them and wreck it.

The main problem with private companies is that they too often serve owners instead of customers or employees. It might seem "efficient" to max out a short term profit, but at what cost?

How many multi million golden parachutes for bad managers do you see in the public sector?

The public sector has to be held accountable to elected politicians, who are accountable to their voters.

The public sector is not a free-for-all of wasting money any more than the private sector is, the unfortunate mechanics are just very different.

WombaT

Northern Ireland23763 Posts

2 hours ago

#96022

On February 25 2025 22:29 Billyboy wrote:

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I think from people around when the Soviet union fell it is the memory of how much worse they had it then people on our side of the wall. I don't think it is a fluke that the far right is rising there, you have many disaffected people and no way they are turning to communism after what happened last time. Tankies really need to change their marketing from the USSR was good it was just capitalist propaganda, too that wasn't really communism it was just Russian colonial authoritarianism branded as communism if they want even the slightest bit of traction. Saying it was propaganda does not work on the people who lived it, and those make up most of the people voting.

The Far Right is perhaps rising in primarily East Germany because the region as a whole hasn’t bridged gaps to the West, despite having my entire lifetime to do so.

If Germans, or those non-Germans more au fait want to correct me, go ahead and do so. I don’t think from, what I’ve read that much of the various left parties were operating on any kind of ‘hey Soviet Communism was great, let’s go back to that!’

Tankies, or even non-Tankie Communists aren’t really that much of a going concern in actual electoral politics almost anywhere in Europe, at least to my knowledge.

It’s liberal democrats of various stripes in liberal democracies that keep losing ground to the Far Right, and yeah a smattering of the Far Left but generally to a lesser degree, and generally those aren’t Communists.

It’s also a fight the left are broadly losing sure, but the left doesn’t have decades+ of status quo orthodoxy, economic power and the cultural imprinting that liberal capitalism has behind it.

And hey, yeah very much doubt it’s the majority but you will also have people who did prefer Communism and ye olden days, or those who liked aspects and disliked others, alongside those who just outright hated that system.

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