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"anything state-run will be highly cost-inefficient compared with a private sector based solution. It's always the case when bureaucrats spend money which isn't theirs. It's natural."
Yeah you kind of summed up the mentality a lot of people have here. But I think that's only true if you also have a government that acts as a neutral regulator. It should be obvious you can't let private companies do whatever the hell they want, do you really trust oligarchic private companies any more than the government? Do you trust Bill Gates deciding what goes on the web or Enron running energy?
Competition only works when there actually is competition. In a pure capitalist system with no regulation the people running things can do whatever they want.
In America wealth has gotten concentrated in so few hands that they have turned around and rigged the system to their benefit. When Bush wrote an energy bill literally did invite Enron into a closed door meeting and help write the bill. The American government is so compromised it's pretty much just a tool for the richest people in the country to get what they want. I don't know if you call that socialism, corporatism, or what, but it's definitely bad.