Reply #9: Are you saying that an economy with any privatization is not a democracy?

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And just for the sake of clarification, I'm saying that a functioning economy (regardless of the form of government) will have a mix of private and socialized industry.

I don't think a private company could ever run the post office, and I think the post office is already dangerously over-privatized. I think Amtrak would create a ton of wealth for society and for private industry if it were run much more efficiently (and probably at a loss) by the government.

But then again, I don't think the government could ever have created the wealth and innovation that a lot of private entrepreneurs have created over the decades.

The government and private enterprise should work together to create social wealth that is distributed fairly (ie, that everyone willing to work for it can realize). That's what I think, anyway.

I'm not very clear about what you think.