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Even though strategic communication-wise, I've already made my case on privatization, I was playing around with national budget numbers a little, comparing 2018 to 1977, and saw how severe the impact is. I call this privatizationgate. One of the reasons why privatization was considered positive is because it would allegedly save costs and on the surface that seems true. The national budget of 1977 had 86.6 billion guilder in expenses and 72.0 billion guilder in income, creating an additional debt deficit of f -14.6 billion. The national budget of 2018 had €277 billion in expenses and €285 billion in income, creating a surplus of €8 billion. That seems like a win, but it is not, for two important reasons: 1. Government Hustle In [...]

The main task of the government is to facilitate a comfortable life for its citizens. Privatization has outsourced the components of the main task to private organizations. (Some countries have never had a time without privatization.) In this post, I will tell you why I think coronavirus behavior proves it's better to de-privatize. As you may know by now, in contrast to the "person Y continues with what person X said" celebrated scientific method, my research method is rather intuitive. Per component I will break down why coronavirus behavior proves it's better to de-privatize, in my view. Health Care Health care is, in most countries, not provided by the government (anymore). It is commercialized, which means that health care institutions can make profit [...]