I'm perplexed by some reactions to Bezos' $2b fund. TLDR:
Bezos, the top capital allocator of our time, shouldn't decide how his $2b is allocated. The government, which is demonstrably bad at spending, should handle this.
Sincerely,
Random person trying to allocate the $

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I was thinking about this more in the context of overspending. E.g. I don't think a private enterprise would ever pay $600m for http://healthcare.gov , but the government would. (Or if an enterprise did pay that, they'd go out of business instead of getting more spending $$.)
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The dividing line between what is public and privately operated is complicated. It’s also possible that in privatizing so fully, the public sector loses its core competency, talent and ability to assess what private sector actors are offering it on contract.
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A probably even more accurate statement is that the solutions proposed, throw more money at the problem, never works. If that was invested in productive enterprise the job growth would take them off the street, but we can't have that because it does not buy votes.
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