How: Searched for fire department on mises.org
At first I asked ChatGPT to give me academic evidence that public sector supplied firefighting services were inefficient compared to private, but it told me that public is better than private 😑
Nice! Thanks. I should have thought to search specific sites like Mises.org.
You'd think I'd remember, because for a recent comment (#673922), I searched specifically on Substack for statin info. I did this because I knew that lots of skeptical doctors posted on Substack. If I had searched any of the main search engines for that statin-skeptical info, I'll bet it would have been a lot harder to find.
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Yeah when trying to find non mainstream or conservative viewpoints you usually have to search specific sites. The bias is real
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ChatGPT will tell you that feeding everyone is a complex and multifaceted task and best served by the private sector.
Then it will tell you that climate change is a complex and multifaceted task and best handled by the government. Kind of weird?
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I mean, that would be the standard neoliberal econ answer, since food is a private good and the climate is a public good / common pool resource.
Yeah, GPT is like a good undergraduate student who can write well, but is basically parroting mainstream neoliberal viewpoints, without much ability to discuss nuances like how even if you agree that climate is a public good, current climate policy creates all sorts of economic distortions and resource misallocations, based on non-existent or extremely shaky cost benefit analysis
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This is outragous, but a very local problem (Los Angeles). You won't see this figures anywhere else and it's not a well-paid job at all.
But regarding the public-private discussion: Imagine the perverse aspects of having a company in firefighting. That's quite a motivation for arson.
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