Re: OT: Politics [Was:Social Contract]

On Tue, 2006-05-02 at 09:08, Roberto C. Sanchez wrote:
Matthias Julius wrote:
Is there no way of improving this? There were examples of public
schools brought up in this thread that actually do work.

Again, the problem is that the lack of a profit motive hampers efficiency.

And that of course is why corporations are even worse than
government. Neither the executives nor the employees have
any profit motive, and the shareholders have less control
than voters have of politicians.

Best by far: Individuals. Also sole proprietors and partners.
Distant 2nd: Government. Sometimes needed for large projects.
Always evil: Corporations. Amoral tools of immoral execs.

And this has what to do with Debian?

--Mike Bird


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