Privatizing- Arguments against {pls add to Demopedia, i cant start a new

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if you can start a Demopedia page, pls enter this, titled "Efficiency Argument" or, less desirable, "privatize".
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Privatizers like to say that privatized concerns are better than public sector concerns, because supposedly private ones are more efficient.
This major idea shows up all over the map. It is called the "Efficiency Argument", and you better be ready for it. The fatal flaws in it are listed below.

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1. Wasteful competition -> results, ---a.) duplication of equipment: b.) trade secrets keep the parallel, excluded producers less efficient

2. great wealth from privatized concerns, is used to bribe officials {campaign contributions are bribes, admit it} - bribes destroy democracy

3. loss of control: lost both by the full population, and lost by any employee union-- privatized concerns are run by dictators, not the citizens. Any union in a public sector concern, will come under harsh attack when the concern is privatized.

4. cut corners --> shabby products and ripoffs. Profit motive drops quality, + increases the tricks invented to rip-off.

eg. -- Pharmacist recently diluted cancer drugs to up his profit.
---Heart pacemakers were "recycled" by the OEM altering expiration date. OEM orig equip maker.
-- Privatized garbage collection -- trash left for weeks, "hopper" workers treated badly { all fired daily, re-hired or not, next morning. Insecurity results. Imagine how a banker will react to a mortgage application from a daily-fired worker.} , wildcat strikes, hoppers began demanding money from houseowners. {hoppers hop on and off truck, pitch the trash in}. Hoppers i saw looked to be 15 {unreported child labor?}, and very very tired. It was painful to watch people so fatigued trying to work.

5. monopoly private equals price hikes --- not seen when monopoly public, because a public director has no profit gouging ideas. Private cartels {often of 3 companies} often act like monopolies, when the three owners meet at a country club to fix prices at high levels. Business schools actually teach the idea of only three large companies as the ideal for any product. The public gets the mistaken idea of competition, while owners easily act like a monopoly.

6. competition inferior to co-operation.

Co-operation === Strength flows together, building strength. competition ==== Strengths destroy each other.

Mentally, co-operating citizens have a friendly approach to other citizens -- ending neighbor-strife over minor matters.
competing citizens are aggressive, upping strife and inner turmoil.

co-operation = love,
competition = hate.
**** Take your pick for the healthier basis of a society.

7. In Nature, recently biologists have found that co-operating symbiosis is MORE common than predatory lion-eat-deer situations. In the past, MBA schools have touted Nature as the big argument for "competition is God-ordained".

Our own bodies have bacteria in our gut to aid in digestion and produce B-vitamins. Symbiosis {human and bacteria}. The tiny bacteria cells are so numerous, they outnumber human body cells ten to one! They are tiny in comparison, so they all fit in your gut. Bulk is needed for properly moving feces down the gut -- two thirds of the bulk is produced by bacteria.

8. Private concerns waste at the top. Inefficient. Huge CEO and stock dividend cash amounts go for useless luxuries. In public concerns, profits are not wasted -- they go either to the employees, new equipment, or to fed revenues where they can fix potholes, hire cops, improve schools, etc. No waste.

Privatized concerns lead to CEO-salary-waste ---- things like the NYC Hotel Parker Meridian's $ 1,000 omlet, and Kozlowski's $ 2,000,000 birthday party with vodka flowing from an ice statue's male opening.