Goodness. Is "leave it to the free market" what you took from my thread? To the contrary, while I very much believe in *harnessing* the power of markets, my thread is all about what kind of *policies* we need most to do so - gov't R&D and subsidies for new tech, specifically.
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At least now we have a falsifiable claim that can be investigated rather than a statement of ideological belief. Now where is the proof that industry was more "productive and democratic" when it was in the hands of th state?
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Most of the IT sector was developed by government. The government has some democratic connection in that you can vote for a representative. Private sector has no democratic connection
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To say that the private sector isn't democratic is to work with an incredibly constrained definition of democracy. All democracies leave a sphere of influence in which people are free to make decisions for themselves. There is a thing called civil society
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Literally every single time anything has been privatised it ceases to be democratic and in the end productive as well
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So we are back in the land of circular definitions. What I suspected. I'll bow out now to the real world and leave y'all to win the internets
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