By transferring the responsibility of education from parents and private enterprise to the State the corporate plutocracy has also transferred the costs of training and filtering employees to the State school apparatus. In addition these state-subsidized schools enforce ‘learning’ that is entirely directed at creating uniform worker drones for mass corporate operations, whether flipping burgers or keying on computers. They provide just as much money to private-sector oligarchs (if not more) with no possibility of bankruptcy for malinvestment or accountability for failure. Yet this is exactly what local, government-run schools are like. A private school, however much it may benefit from state interference and largesse, nonetheless cannot simply squander all its money, build useless and unsafe environments, and flip the middle finger at the parents and children with no repercussions. Rather than making schooling more available and improving the competitive abilities of the poor, state schools actually provide more profitable sources of revenue than direct operation by private enterprise, with essentially zero-accountability. And because of this these corporations are raking in huge sums of money without being responsible, while schools can draw potentially infinite funds without any reference to outcomes. Yet is this really an antidote? The almost entirely state-operated school system provides billions a year to corporations – through construction contracts, purchase of computers, purchase of Microsoft Windows, purchase of internet access through FCC-regulated-and-connected agencies such as Time-Warner.
#CORPORATE PLUTOCRACY FULL#
After the failure of Obamacare (which even some leftists admit) the solution usually offered is a single-payer system, that is full state operation of medical services, or at least a system of free state-run hospitals for those who cannot afford private services. ‘Obamacare’ has resulted in the funneling of money into huge insurance companies and a further disconnection between patients and care providers, with no apparent improvement in the cost or availability of medical care. Many liberals and socialists demand, as an antidote, that many social services should be provided by the government rather than left to the whims of the corporate oligarchy.
Existing corporations, even if they provide really valuable services, are almost certainly far more profitable and extensive that would be possible in a market of free competition and without State control of access to credit and so forth.
To start with I will admit (as more sophisticated libertarians do) that really-existing capitalism and its major appendages – the international joint-stock corporation – benefit in a myriad of ways from state intervention, both direct (subsidy, tariff and government contracts) as well as indirect (the creation of ‘friendly business environments’ in foreign lands through political pressure by the American state, intellectual property, and so forth). I wanted to write a little bit about the question of ‘social services’ provided by the State as alleged ‘alternatives’ to for-profit systems. Some interesting comments from “Dick Moore” on Facebook.
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