Privatistion - paint it not with one stroke - part 1

When I was in school, I used to be an avid debater. I use to love making speeches, arguements and expressing my thoughts on the stage. One of the debates that I participated in was on the topic 'Public Industry Vs Private Industry'. At that time I was speaking on the behalf of the private industry. Today the only point that I recollect from that debate is that private industry is more efficient than public industries. Growing up over the years as one reads of sick state PSUs being disinvested and private companies coming out with new technologies and meets impressive people from the corporate world, that point has become even more strongly etched in my belief systems.

After working in the development world for some time, I was met with a voracious wave of people who were anti private companies. This was difficult for me to grasp wth as I had entered this world from the corporate world where I had met exceptional people doing exceptional work. I brushed away these protests with an opinion that stereotypes exist even in people working in the development sector. In the recent times I have to got to know a few nuggets of information which has led me to grudgingly empathise with the people. Many of these stories have had huge ramnifications in the world and has led me to believe that even I had painted the entire private industry with one stroke and had a stereotypical thinking about it. In the debate about private vs public industry one should not glorify the role of the private industry because they too have their very large and dangerous demonic stories which most of young people might not know.