Sigh, an efficiency commission sounds like a way to to form a group of loyalists who has the power to arbitrarily decide on policy for any government agency based on a loose definition of “efficiency”.
A group like that could simply decide that a private company is allways more efficient than a government agency, or that a deregulated market is more efficient than a regulated market.
The goal of “efficiency” is increadibly vauge, while sounding positive.
I know it sounds weird, but if a country has a legal minimum wage it removes tools from unions since companies can just tell the unions to pound sand.
Here in Sweden we don’t have any minimum wage mandated by the government.
It is negotiated between the sector unions and employers.
Also sympathy strikes are legal here.
Whenever there have been talks about introducing a minimum wage in Sweden, unions have allways reacted negatively, as it would effectively prevent them from negotiating for higher wages, and a minimum wage would easily get stuck in the past.
I know that the US and Sweden are very different, and that in the current labor market in the US, removing a minimum wage would be a disaster, but I felt as if your conclusion that minimum wage is allways bad needed a counterpoint.
unions have allways reacted negatively, as it would effectively prevent them from negotiating for higher wages,
Maybe take away power from the union, but the union can totally still negotiate a minimum wage if it want. The union I’m part (insurance workers of the state of São Paulo) have a minimum wage, higher that the state and national one.
Sometimes a union will promote the union interest rather than member interest. There is a current scandal about corrupt unions here in Australia. We have a national minimum wages and also award wages by sector and seniority, like hundreds of minimum wages.
Small government is just code for less power in the hands of the people.
Removing the profit margin can make entire industries more efficient. For examples of markets being run less efficient for-profit ses Medicine. Education. Law. For examples of markets that operate effectively being non-profit see the Postal service, Fire services
The argument against M4A is it would cost too much. LOLOLOLOL. Insurance is literally the one modal of business thats designed to be cheaper the more scaled up it goes. It’s begging for monopoly.
Which is why insurance shouldn’t be privatized at all. It should all be wrapped into one, and then we wouldn’t have any free riders gaming the system.
At some point, fairness has to enter the conversation. I’m aware it’s essentially absent within our judicial suppression system. Id advocate that needs complete overhauling as well.
There are absolutely things that should be privatized, and things that should nationalized.
Any essential service, power/water/sewage/postal, should be nationalized, internet and telephone services can be argued should be nationalized, but I don’t know how well that would work with trust going down while censorship goes up.
Pharmacies should be semi private, privately run, but required to handle prescriptions and be connected to the national pharamacy database with inventory information for all othet pharamacies so they can point the customer to the best alternate pharmacy with the medicine in stock.
Railroads should be owned by the government, operators will then pay for access to use them, government deals with repairs and central scheduling, operators send in requests to run a train, the government schedules it, with minor changes to the requested time, or sends it back with a reason why they can’t approve the request.
Public transport is run by the local city, it can be run at a loss, since the added income of tax revenue from more people getting jobs and businesses get more customers. Add to this a reduced wear and tear on roads, and less pollution, increasing health, reducing loss of income from sickness.
Healthcare should not be private, and can be cheap/tax funded, a healthy population is a happy population, a happy population is a productive population, a productive population earns more money and can pay more taxes.
Schools can be private, but they can’t charge an admission fee or require any payment from students, they get government grants for every student, same as public schools, but they can specialize in certain subjects. Educated workers are an investment for the government and will be a good resource for the future.
Sigh, an efficiency commission sounds like a way to to form a group of loyalists who has the power to arbitrarily decide on policy for any government agency based on a loose definition of “efficiency”.
A group like that could simply decide that a private company is allways more efficient than a government agency, or that a deregulated market is more efficient than a regulated market.
The goal of “efficiency” is increadibly vauge, while sounding positive.
Efficiency = reduce costs
Minimum wage = labor cost
Eliminate Minimum wage = lower labors costs = Efficiency
Getting rid of minimum wage can be good.
I know it sounds weird, but if a country has a legal minimum wage it removes tools from unions since companies can just tell the unions to pound sand.
Here in Sweden we don’t have any minimum wage mandated by the government.
It is negotiated between the sector unions and employers.
Also sympathy strikes are legal here.
Whenever there have been talks about introducing a minimum wage in Sweden, unions have allways reacted negatively, as it would effectively prevent them from negotiating for higher wages, and a minimum wage would easily get stuck in the past.
I know that the US and Sweden are very different, and that in the current labor market in the US, removing a minimum wage would be a disaster, but I felt as if your conclusion that minimum wage is allways bad needed a counterpoint.
Maybe take away power from the union, but the union can totally still negotiate a minimum wage if it want. The union I’m part (insurance workers of the state of São Paulo) have a minimum wage, higher that the state and national one.
That is fair, I was absolutely projecting my Swedish biases in my earlier comment, sorry about that.
Sometimes a union will promote the union interest rather than member interest. There is a current scandal about corrupt unions here in Australia. We have a national minimum wages and also award wages by sector and seniority, like hundreds of minimum wages.
Unions here also don’t like universal healthcare here for the same reason.
It’s not a good reason.
Small government is just code for less power in the hands of the people.
Removing the profit margin can make entire industries more efficient. For examples of markets being run less efficient for-profit ses Medicine. Education. Law. For examples of markets that operate effectively being non-profit see the Postal service, Fire services
The argument against M4A is it would cost too much. LOLOLOLOL. Insurance is literally the one modal of business thats designed to be cheaper the more scaled up it goes. It’s begging for monopoly.
Which is why insurance shouldn’t be privatized at all. It should all be wrapped into one, and then we wouldn’t have any free riders gaming the system.
At some point, fairness has to enter the conversation. I’m aware it’s essentially absent within our judicial suppression system. Id advocate that needs complete overhauling as well.
There are absolutely things that should be privatized, and things that should nationalized.
Any essential service, power/water/sewage/postal, should be nationalized, internet and telephone services can be argued should be nationalized, but I don’t know how well that would work with trust going down while censorship goes up.
Pharmacies should be semi private, privately run, but required to handle prescriptions and be connected to the national pharamacy database with inventory information for all othet pharamacies so they can point the customer to the best alternate pharmacy with the medicine in stock.
Railroads should be owned by the government, operators will then pay for access to use them, government deals with repairs and central scheduling, operators send in requests to run a train, the government schedules it, with minor changes to the requested time, or sends it back with a reason why they can’t approve the request.
Public transport is run by the local city, it can be run at a loss, since the added income of tax revenue from more people getting jobs and businesses get more customers. Add to this a reduced wear and tear on roads, and less pollution, increasing health, reducing loss of income from sickness.
Healthcare should not be private, and can be cheap/tax funded, a healthy population is a happy population, a happy population is a productive population, a productive population earns more money and can pay more taxes.
Schools can be private, but they can’t charge an admission fee or require any payment from students, they get government grants for every student, same as public schools, but they can specialize in certain subjects. Educated workers are an investment for the government and will be a good resource for the future.