Keith Hudson wrote: > Present-day architects and builders cannot build to safety factors of 10, > or even 5, because the buildings would be too expensive and would never > produce a profit.
That's a good argument against privatization. Thanks Keith :-) > The typical legislatures of developed countries, > disproportionately consisting of lawyers and, more recently, "professional" > politicians who have never had ordinary jobs (or even executive jobs in > business), are completely unrepresentative of the jobs and experience of > the population at large. They are as distant and removed from the > conditions and worries of ordinary people as a Chinese Emperor. ...as is the typical CEO. But you seem to think/suggest that the corporatization of politics is a good thing. > We need a totally new sort of governmental system. Perhaps it is already > evolving. Today, we are seeing the powerful emergence of pressure groups of > all sorts, public and private, large and small, self-seeking and > altruistic, national and international. What we see is the growing influence of *corporate* pressure/PR/lobby groups -- so badly that even in supposedly altruistic NGOs (environmental/social/ patient organizations), the greedheads are taking over --, so that the public interests are being trampled more and more. Is that the kind of revolution that we want ? Rather the contrary... Chris
