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CtC: "so you're saying that private enterprise is accountable to the market, but government enterprises are not accountable to anyone." Yes, I'd say that is accurate. A private enterprise which fails to serve customers is dead, and it doesn't take long. A government enterprise is protected from competition and so customers have no alternative and are forced to accept whatever level of service or product the "enterprise" supplies, whether it be infected vaccines or unreliable electricity supplies. CtC: "is it a necessary outcome that government enterprises are unaccountable, or is it just the way things have turned out?" Its usually the way it turns out. Public enterprises usually start off with a high minded public service sentiment but over time suffocate under stiffling beauracracy, blame shifting, and no competition to spur innovation and improvement. The good people leave and the dead wood remain. Invevitable? Maybe not. But usually what we see happen in the every state water utility, telephone utility, electricity utility, schools and hospitals that are run by the state. Market forces don't allow private sector companies to do that - they either innovate and serve or they die.
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