No. You simply see things through "government and the public sector are great" glasses and I don't. Perhaps you are a government worker. I don't know. I have been an entrepreneur my entire life. And my parents have been entrepreneurs their entire lives. And, you guessed it, my grandparents have been entrepreneurs their entire lives. So my family has a thread of self-reliance that spans multiple generations, cultures and continents. It is very likely that my world view is vastly different than yours across a wide range of areas. And, as I have said many times, that's OK.
No, your stubbornness is not OK. It is called a lack of intellectual integrity.
You aren't supposed to go around wearing prejudiced "glasses" based on what your grandparents did, you are supposed to try and see things as they are - and be open to revising your opinions as necessary.
I suggest you stop pretending to be Burt from Tremors long enough to try being objective. You might like it.
As it happens, I have never been a government employee and basically all my professional experience has been in the private sector. That shouldn't dictate my opinions.
The same way that the fact that I have worked in data cleaning before doesn't make me an advocate for data cleaning.
Now if I try to advocate that a public sector hospital cafeteria is just as nice as a commercial cappuccino bar, I'd look silly, because that is an example where the free market does better.
When you dismiss all that has been achieved by the tiger economies because of your sheer prejudice, you too look very silly.
It is also silly to assume that private sector = entrepreneurship and government = master planning, which is simply not true. Counter-examples:
1) A lot of the master planning that the Japanese and Koreans do is implemented by their private sector, which is clear from the links that I provided.
2) A lot of the private sector even in the US consists of large corporations who do master planning internally using ERP systems.
3) The people working in these companies are also not showing any kind of entrepreneurship or cowboy self-reliance; they are private sector bureaucrats churning out TPS reports
4) The DARPA funding for Internet and other CS research was government funded - but by throwing money at Professors, not by politicians micromanaging the thing
Maybe looking into Zen might help you with your world view problems.
