A Country Must Be Run Like A Business By Frank Li, Ph.D.

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America is a very greedy nation so China is corrupt but they are not greedy and are successful because they are doing things by thinking outside of the box and though the people dislike their government if you play ball with them then your okay and their for not a threat.

I just wish the West would learn from history the way the Asian countries have notice every Asian country has a good economy? But it the global economy world it is mainly the West that is hurting economically.

You are deluded. China is not a Confucian Paradise. The politicians in China are in it for what they can get for themselves, their families and their mistresses. Politics in China is very dirty and it is much dirtier than what goes on in the U.S. China is not a country under law. It is a country run by decree and power brokering committees. Chinese courts are a joke by western standards.

Not to long ago there was a god awful train wreck on one of the high speed rail lines recently built. When reporters started making know violations in safety procedure for the sake of setting speed records, unsafe shoddy equipment and signals etc. etc. they were told to shut up quick. The government was not going to permit the world to see what a shoddy system they have.

The clean up crew were bulldozing rolling stock off the right of way without doing a through check for bodies or even victims still alive in the wreckage. That is the sort of thing that goes on in China.

The Chinese have also developed a stinking reputation for second rate quality control for the sake of turning out the order. Making the huan is first priortity. Doing it safely and with quality is definitely second.

ruveyn

True but one could say America is a country ruled by Lobbyists and greedy politicians with a joke for a president and a bunch of boobs in congress and the senate put all that together you get our Government having a country ran by laws is a good thing but if you find something that works better like decree and power brokering committees if that creates a success I would give up my rights to at least have a job and work American teachers teaching English in China get payed very well their salary is 10 times more then the average American teachers salary but if America doesn't get better ill move back to Israel.

I am not a fan of China but regardless of how their government system is you cant argue with success thats what China is even if they are a joke by Western standards.

Nowaday "philantropy" is mostly used as a political tool and/or publicity. By giving money they can fix they're conditions on how the things must be run. Even if given on good intentions they can make thing worse by ignorance on how things really work in foreign life conditions.

More so, the government is more efficient as the money is given to evryone who need it rather that only the few lucky peoples who recieve charity. Also, the government dispose of a lot of checks and a vaster network of informations that allow better policy; it's also more likely to react to media criticism if things turn bad.

Nonsense. Seeing the word "government" and "efficient" in the same sentence is an oxymoron. And government are generally corrupt. The only point of having a government is to have an army and a police force, both of which are monopolies of force. Government do not make much. Rather they control and they usually do a bad job too.

ruveyn

you should travel more,

prove your generalities with something.

That's what I learned is called the "Mask of Benevolence". Gotta remember the path to Hell is paved with good intentions.

Look at the condition of third world countries. Squalor, rot and corruption.

Only a few countries in the world work well. Places like Switzerland. Even a "first world" country like Greece is going to wreck and ruin. You can count the number of well run countries in the world on the digits of two hands. And every one of those countries has a substantial market component where investments are not completely determined by government policy. The best examples, Switzerland and Hong Kong (even under communist rule) have market economies and most production is the result of private capital investment.

I suggest you read the news papers to see how bad governments are. The middle east is a cess pool of corruption, Africa is a basket case and in our hemisphere we have the badly run countries in South America. In Central America Mexico is corrupt to the bone half run by drug lords.

How much proof do you require?

ruveyn

i dont disagree that there are plenty of corruption, i have siomply seen it in western countries as well.

i worked in greece months before the true troubles started and i can easily understand why the country went to s**t.

still way more countries than 10 in the world that work well, there are a lot of countries in europe that are doing quite well, some that dont too.

besides corruption doesnt care about borders, it cares about money and greedy people.

He has some utterly stupid ideas.

It strikes me as the height of stupidity that government decision making can be improved by importing private sector values.

Private sector managers have one--and only one--metric for success: making money. Every decision can, at its simplest, be reduced to a net present value exercise. Want to open a new business line, then compare the net present value of the business line's projected net revenue with the cost of investment. If the NPV is higher, then go ahead and invest in it. Now, you can still get it wrong, if your predictions are faulty, if you make unwarranted actuarial assumptions, if you are subject to bad luck or if outlier events occur that have the effect of invalidating your model.

Contrast that with public sector decision making. Within the public sector there are always vastly more demands on public sector resources than there are resources to satisfy those demands, and so public sector decision makers must make choices between competing interests looking for access to the same, finite, pool of resources. And throughout, there is no simple guideline to tell you how to make those decisions. Suppose you are a hospital administrator--do you put more money into emergency care or into oncology? Suppose you are a school district superintendant--do you put more money into programs for gifted students, programs for students with learning disabilities, or programs for arts and culture? These are judgement calls, and public sector decision making is a never ending series of judgement calls where there are no metrics for success.

The public sector exists to ensure the delivery of services that it is in no one's direct commercial interest to ensure. (Private sector participants may wind up delivering those services, but the private sector is the source of resources to ensure that it happens).

Where government falls down is when it seeks to do things that lie outside its core competence, and can (and should) be more effectively done by the private sector. Government should not be involved in running businesses, for example.

It seems to me to be the height of arrogance to suggest that public sector decision makers can be straightened out by private sector decision makers simply because they have the advantage of performing jobs that are easier (and higher paid) than their public sector counterparts.

"Great success"?

A country that is like a 5 year old with a big bag of money that don't know what it wants and spends it randomly on projects it doesn't know if it will fail or not? A country in which the group is more important than the individuals needs and indoctrinates it's citizens to think like that? A country in which you are not allowed to voice your opinions about corruption? A country with a one party political "system" that you have to be a member in the political party - or be a nobody? A country which would by definition shun any Aspie because we question things by nature?

Measuring a country by the amount of money it has is an extremely poor measurement of quality.

Social development, public services, the ability to express your thoughts without repercussions, a high quality of life and living in a stable society without fear - that is a good quality of life.

China can get things done faster and cheaper than the U.S. because they aren't slowed down by regulatory agencies. Their industries are not hampered by EPA regulations that slow the rate of indutrial waste being dumped into the enviroment. They are poisoning themselves with their success. They also have no equivalent to OSHA so their industries can put out product at a much faster and cheaper pace because worker safety is not an issue. When a worker dies, oh well....

This is not a model to follow.


I disagree with literally every point in the linked article. A nation shouldn't be run like a business since the goals ofa nation and the goals of a business are incomptable. A nation exists for the citizens who live within it. A business exists for the owners of the business.

And if anyone complains too much they can be bankrupted by bogus tax charges or just put in jail.

ruveyn