Business
leadership in Government- Low Quality Upgrades?
Does
business leadership in government provide low quality upgrades to
infrastructure and so forth as it seeks way to increase profits for
friends and others in contracting etc? If profit is the primary
concern rather than quality or what is good for the people and
ecosphere then it is possible that the public gets shoddy goods and
services for what they pay, instead of anything good or leading.
Business
leaders in government may be concerned about just buying items that
work for the best cost and from their favorite suppliers that can
return some benefits rather than seeking to find some way to
understand what it is that society needs and what new technologies
and ecospheric synthesis could best accomplish that.
It
is interesting that Mussolini’s PhD thesis was on corporatism. When
government is taken over by corporations public interests may just
wither as concentrated wealth and power pursues its own ends.
Unfortunately
the alternative to corporatism is as misunderstood as is corporatism
that too many mistake for capitalism. Capitalism can use reform such
that it is made to serve democracy rather than vice versa.
“I
hope we shall take warning from the example of England and crush in
its birth the aristocracy of our moneyed corporations which dare
already to challenge our Government to trial, and bid defiance to the
laws of our country.”-Thomas
Jefferson
Ralph
nadir published a good book on the problem of corporatism in 2016 .
https://www.breakingthroughpower.org/
Since
the end of the cold war some of supported unlimited expansion of
capitalism rather than a deliberate, sober, thoughtful approach to
governing the nation’s public affairs. Plainly socialism is
regarded as the sole alternative and is an excuse for letting a
minority of investors take over the government of the United States.
Socialism is also an inappropriate form of government for the United
States as it also represses individualism and individual enterprise.
The correct approach is to reform capitalism such that it serves the
people well from the bottom up.
I
have written elsewhere about the value of reforming capitalism in
order that none are excluded from prosperity. The IRS can hold
everyone to account individually, as does Obamacare, yet government
cannot individualism employment security such that each citizen
actually has work when they seek it. Laws could be made that would
provide tax cuts for hiring those longest unemployed or most often
fired or laid off that would create practical employment instead of
unemployment. Patent periods could be reduced to three years with 10%
royalties to the inventors after exclusivity elapses. Tax incentives
could be made for ecological and efficient tech infrastructure and
business development etc Investors could be limited to owning shares
in no more than three corporations and so forth to have a more
deliberate approach to investment.
