Reply #24: Your analogies. [View All]

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They equate quality of food having to do with efficiency, In almost every situation, efficiency gets rid of quality.

Your argument says the staff was unhelpful or uninterested. Where does efficiency create a better work environment for the staff to be helpful and interested? Efficiency would create more work for staff, or less pay. Again the analogy does not fit.



Well ran organization, and efficiency are not the same thing. Efficiency is getting the most out of what resources are there.


In most views, and the view of the money first private sector, an efficient restaurant would have the most customers buying the highest margin goods, at the lowest possible overhead and labor. If that was done by having workers afraid of getting fired if they did not smile, then that would be more efficient. If it was done by miss labeling food, if not noticed, that would be more efficient. If the garbage was dumped illegally in a back alley, that would be more efficient.


Efficiency has one goal, to be more profitable then some other group. Or to do more with less goods or services. So the concept is that the private sector is better then government, because we have been told they are more efficient by competition, when the competition is actually limited. So I could even say the only way to even know if private sector is more efficient would be to have a public sector running system, then calculate all the cost to all of society, not just the cost of running the one business. Is it more efficient when a business lays off workers?

But back to the concept of efficiency

The problem right now is production is higher then demand, so more efficient systems only help those that run the better system, not society, it is race to the bottom. A less efficient system with more vacations, and shorter hours with same pay, would actually be better for society, since demand would go up, and production down.

Efficiency is getting the most out of what you have. Sound great, unless the problem is that you already have to much of something. Production. So areas have to be expanded like health care and education and even leisure time activities to fill the gap and employee people. We need a less efficient society.

Been that way for a few decades, when production went higher then demand, and the entire economic engine of capitalism had to switch from trying to supply for more demand then production, to creating demand by designing obsolescence into products, creation of scarcity with monopoly control, and other race to the bottom hardships.



The thing is the drive to efficiency also leads to economics of scale, and eventually leads to monopolies. And the whole argument against government inefficiency is they have no competition or need to be efficient. And yet the drive to efficiency can create monopolies which are far less efficient anyway. So even the argument that the private sector is more efficient is wrong, since without government breaking them up, they become predators that stop competition by buying up any group that could compete with them.