This is extremely reductive and defensive. There are things that the private sector has relative advantages at and things that the public sector has advantages at.
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Replying to @kimmaicutler @AustenAllred
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@AlanaSemuels’ story about Elon building tunnels beneath the homes of disproportionately black and Latino homeowners in LA without their awareness. https://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2018/11/los-angeles-elon-musk-tunnels-under-neighborhood/575725/ …1 reply 0 retweets 17 likes -
What if your life savings is in your house and this affects the foundation, for example? What recourse is there for that?
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The tunnel example isn't the best one, but I appreciate what Austen is trying to do with education. I think he should have used this example to make his point (but that would probably be seen as self-promotion).
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Call it Chariot then instead of tunneling. That was meant to serve as a very generic example, I’m not defending boring co specifically
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Replying to @Austen @AustenAllred and
Uh... Chariot is also not a good example. It shut down this week. One relative disadvantage of the private system is that it can generate a incoherent, hard-to-navigate cornucopia of conflicting services that are ad-hoc and can randomly shut down.
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Replying to @kimmaicutler @AustenAllred and
Large swathes of the federal government is literally shut down because someone wants to waste billions of dollars on an ineffective solution to a nonexistent problem.
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Replying to @DTLawhon @kimmaicutler and
I don't think you can conclusively say that, without taking competence and accountability systems into account, that any given organizational structure is inherently better than another.
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Replying to @DTLawhon @kimmaicutler and
Government working at its theoretical best beats incompetent private industry, and private industry working at its theoretical best beats incompetent government. That doesn't tell you anything useful, though.
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Replying to @DTLawhon @AustenAllred and
there is a larger cultural context here where the person responsible for that decision was elected on the belief that a businessman with ostensibly deep private sector experience could solve large-scale public problems
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this is after an entire generation of messaging & political advertising from the early 1980s onward about how government is the problem and not the solution, and how that particular messaging came to saturate an entire political party.
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Replying to @kimmaicutler @DTLawhon and
And I think that’s the error in the response - confusing “hey we can do part of x well” for “the government shouldn’t do x”
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Replying to @Austen @AustenAllred and
I hear you, this is a complicated part of messaging though. You have to constantly repeat "I want to improve X in this way" *and* I recognize the value of, say, the CA community college system, which operates at scale of 2M students/year
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