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Well this is a vast topic but I will write the most fundamental and basic things immediately required for our Nation.First of all read this to know what is exactly the problem in India Srinivas Kattimani's answer to What is wrong with India?Provide At least Two Years Rigorous Military Training in the Armed Forces of India to all the Youth for INCULCATING “NATIONAL DISCIPLINE” amongst Youth. There is very much indcipline amongst the people of India both at personal as well as professional level. This is the Harsh Truth of people living in India .Hence the people the new generation must be provided at least two or Four years of rigorous Military Training in the Armed Forces of India .Only then National Discipline will be achieved amongst people . As we know “A Nation with Indciplined Citizens will Never become a Developed Nation” Hence for Development “National Discipline” amongst people both at personal as well as Professional level is very much required. If the National Discipline is NOT INCULCATED amongt the people , Even after Following the Rest of points written in this answer will Never Achieve this Nation a Developed Nation. This is the LACK of National Discipline due to which people Become Thief ( Yes Thief ) even after becoming IAS officer.Hence our First Prority must be Inculcating NATIONAL DISCIPLINE Amongst every person at least the Youth by providing Military Training for at least For two or Four years in the Armed Forces starting from the age of 18. “NATIONAL DISCIPLINE will bring Civic Responsibilities amongst the people which is almost absent in our youth today” Almost all the Developed Nations like Germany England America etc have this Policy .Hence We can certainly learn this from them at least.2 . Quality Education and Single and same SYLLABUS throughout the Nation .There must be Same books throughout the Nation such as NCERT or ICSE books which must be folowed and must be revised Regulary after each 5 year. The schools and colleges ( including General degree colleges) must have Very Fine Teachers or Professors who teach whole Heartedly. The school opening Liscence must be provided STRINGENTLY on the grounds of Quality Education and not on the grounds of Results only ( Because who knows the results may be due to cheating.) Classes must be compulsory in all the colleges as it is there in IITs and other good colleges.Teaching Methodology must be such that students understand the things in the class itself and not only that teacher or professor taught in the class and his duty is over and he doesn't care about who have understood or who haven't.I myself have observed such Teaching Style at IIT Bombay and NIT Jsr by some of the finest Professors ( By providing Questions and making you Solve in the classroom itself before the Teacher or Professor )This method of making students learn in classroom itself must be Abided by throughout the country ( in all the schools and colleges .)I hope Mody Govt will bring these Actions ( Quality EDUCATION at Nominal FEE so that it is in reach of every person right from grade 1) in the field of Education in Future.Till now Mody Govt has Done NOTHING ( Yes Absolutely NOTHING ) to Provide Quality EDUCATION to Everyone right from grade 1 till HIGHER EDUCATION.For EDUCATION here is the Detailed AnalysisDhiraj Kumar's answer to What are some of the major defects of the Indian education system, especially the state boards?Please study the above answer Thoroughly.3. Vasectomy ( Nasbandi ) in Males after two children by hook or by crook .Along with this Make a Law which STRINGENTLY tell that No person ( Including Muslims also ) shall Ever keep more than one Wife Under any circumstances Except when the First wife is Unable to produce Children due to Strong Valid Medical Reasons.4. Make Schools everywhere ( in the reach of every person ) and stop all these Religious schools by hook or by crook .5. Completely Abolish and Annihilate CASTE And GOTRA System from all the Religions namely Hinduism Musilms Christians etc and make sure People don't tell that these are their personal things and Govt could do nothing against these .Nothing even the RELIGIOUS Laws is your Personal iff it is AGAINST NATIONAL INTEREST .Hence Govt can and Must Abolish these SYSTEMS or RELIGIOUS Laws iff they are HINDERING the DEVELOPMENT of the NATION and the PEOPLE ( of all the Sections and Religions and Ethnicity) of the NATION as a Whole .6. Apply Uniform Civil Code as soon as possible through out the Nation on Each and Every community or Etnic culture living here. No one , NOT EVEN MINORITIES Like MUSLIMS, must be FREE to PRACTICE ABSURD ILLOGICAL LAWS under the VEIL of RELIGIONS (For Example “ HALAALAA”) . ABOLISH MUSLIM PERSONAL LAWS ( SHARIYA LAWS) ( for example a Muslim cannot marry a Non Muslim without converting the NonMuslim to a Muslim, & A Muslim Girl after being Divorced cannot Remarry her Previous Husband Without Sleeping and Having Sex with Another Third Person ( The HALAALAA) ) which are ABJECT ABSURD ILLOGICAL and UNSCIENTIFIC.Read thisAnd if some people tell that it is their cultural and Ethnic and Religious thing that must be protected ,they must be told that if these Cultural and Religious things come against the Development of Nation they must be ABOLISHED .Remember A Nation is formed by their People of all sect ( from Lower class to Upper class)and if the people are not developed the Nation will Never be Developed.Understand this“In Dark Ages People are best guided by RELIGION as in a Pitch Black Night A Blind Man is the best Guide ; he knows roads and paths better than a man who can see .When daylight comes, HOWEVER ,it is FOOLISH to Use Blind men as Guides.” By HEINRICH HEINE .Always Remember ANYTHING ( Any Religious or Cultural or Ethnic Law) can be ABOLISHED if it is AGAINST NATIONAL INTEREST.7. Govt Must apply Heavy Taxes upon Standard Liquor and Alcoholic Products ( Beverages) and must Ban Non Standard Alcoholic Beverage immediately .8. Law and Order Situation of our Nation Must be Severely Strict and Stringent. Law and order of a particular area is in the hands of IPS who have qualified the toughest exam Of UPSC and it's interview still many of them become CORRUPT during their Service .It is a HORRIBLE and HORRENDOUS situation for the Nation.Law and order must be Severely Strict otherwise it will lead to Disater of the NATION some day or the other. The Police System must be provided best Equipments and newest technology for combating the new challenges to keep the Society safe and smoothly running .Also Laws must be made Gender Unbiased ( GENDER NEUTRAL)except Under Certain Very Very Special Conditions For Example “A pregnant Women till Pregnancy cannot be Hanged to Death as it will lead to death of Fetus the Unborn child”.9. Solve the Kashmir Border Issue(POK) As soon as Possible By Hook or by Crook ( Especially by POWER OR WAR with Pakistan ).SEAL the Kashmir Border using Newsest technology if possible so that No one can pass through it . Provide Quality Education and Jobs to the Youth of Kashmir which is Under Indian Constitution as the Education and situation of Unemployed Youth is very PATHETIC in Jammu and Kashmir Valley. This will certainly Reduce the Chaotic and Horrendous Environment at Kashmir and there will be Prosperity at Kashmir. Bullet is not the Solution of Everything . Doing Massacre and Killing our own General mass of people by Bullet will not solve the Problem at Kashmir Valley on the contrary it will create the situation like Civil WAR which is a very very Dangerous Situation for any Country.10. Adulteration in Food material must be A Criminal offence with Death Sentence as the Punishment. Nobody must be free to Play with The Health of The People of India.Adulteration in Food material must be Stopped by Hook or by crook.Strict Vigilance must be there for Food Material so that No one must be able to adulterate the food material.Remember“The SAFETY and HONOUR of the Country comes Always FIRST and FOREMOST ,The SAFETY and HONOUR of the PEOPLE whom I Command comes Always Next and My Own SAFETY and HONOUR comes always at Last.”It is Not that the Safety and HONOUR of my Religion comes Prior to SAFETY and HONOUR of My Country. No NEVER.I will add more as I think .Edit 1. After interacting with few people on this topic with this answer I came to know that these thoughts are never going to be implemented in a Democratic Country like India. But for making the Country India a Developed Nation one the Prime Minister must have to adopt such Policies else the country India will always be a Developing Nation .It will Never be a Developed Nation if such Policies are not Adequately Implemented . Even the implementation of such Policies requires a Dictatorship in India the Prime Minister should go for it .As here the Democracy is just fulfilling the wishes of FOOLS. It is said that “ Democracy is a Govt run by the FOOLS for the FOOLS and of the FOOLS” and it is Very sad to know that this Definition very appropriate in Indian Context.“Hence if these implementation of Policies require a Dictatorship for some time in India one the Prime Minister must do it.”Feel free to put your valuable and valid thoughts over the points discussed in the answer in the comment.Edit : Regarding Point no 9 Kashmir issue The Article 370 and 35A are made Null & Void by the Parliament on 5th August 2019.Edit : The Instant Triple Talaq is made A Criminal Offence Now by the parliament in 2019 . This will also ensure The Abolition of HALALA Practice in Islamic World in India.Other Points like Uniform Civil Code will also be implemented very soon by the Parliament .Yes Our Nation is Progressing.

Before talking about Kerala let me tell you about some countries with most favorable geographical location.Myanmar is rich in timber, hydropower, natural gas, diamonds, and even uranium. Geographically, it can be called wealthy. However it stands 147th in HDI ranking of 189 countries.Venezuela had the world's largest oil deposit and yet the country is had suffered inflation, hyperinflation. I would suggest it as the worst economy of the century. ( Remember, this place is also geographically wealthy). HDI ranking is 78. Geographically, it has a strategic location and huge amount of resourcesVenezula on MapAngola another African country has( second most geographically rich country in Africa)thick forests in the north serve as a logical border with the Democratic Republic of the Congo, while the Kalahari Desert offers a natural frontier with Namibia and Botswana to the south. To the east, a gradually rising plateau abuts Zambia, and the South Atlantic Ocean is off to the west. The , Luanda, which is perched on the oil-rich northwestern coast, is ranked the second-most expensive city in the world.But this country is ranked 149th in HDI ranking. It is one of the country with most income inequality.In fact, 94 percent of rural households are categorized as poor. There is a very low electrification rate in rural areas of Angola, with only 6% of rural households having access to electricity. A considerable amount of the population (38 percent) does not have access to safe water sources. Consequently, the mortality rate for children under five is around 17 percent. In addition, many children do not have access to education , making future employment difficult. In fact, 34.6 percent of people have unequal access to education. As a result, 28.9 percent of the population have an unequal income.Somewhere in AngolaWhat I want to say is that these countries all are geographically rich but what make it poor is its worst governance and corruption in bureaucracy.Scholars such as Jeffrey D. Sachs argue that geography has a key role in the development of a nation's economic growth but having it alone be like a popular Malayalam sayingPatteede kayil muzhuvan thenga kodutha pole(Translation: It's like giving a dog a complete coconut)They also need to utilize the geographical resource, plan for a sustainable development by investing in future and present …in short good governance. A good governance plus geography equal to development.Coming back to the question, It's not the geographical location that has a huge share in growth of HDI in the state. It is socio-cultural uprising ( read this for a better view)Jewel Jose's answer to Why is left ideology dominant in Kerala?Upliftment of new class called middle class in the state due to the gulf effect ( brain drain ) which in turn resulted in demand in quality in life standards etc does. Kerala is a state of high literacy (every one knowns that) but Kerala was the first in Asia to undertook the responsibility of education as the responsibility of stateIn Travancore by Rani Gouri Parvati Bai in 1817 , Rani Gauri Parvati Bai of Travancore kingdom made primary education compulsory in Travancore. In 1879, the state grant in aid and rules were made applicable to all private schools, to provide education in vernacular language to a certain standardIn 1874 , Diwan of the Kingdom made a vernacular education department in the state . It was the Magna Carta of Education in Travancore. In 1904 , the Travancore made education completely free in state. Restrictions in lower castes in government schools were removed in 1911-1912. In 1917 rural schools were also started for the benefit of the pupils who were unable to going for education due to poverty or other cause. In view of the people’s demand and the collegiate level institutions in the state, on I st November 1937, the University of Travancore was established and incorporated under the Travancore University Act 1937-38. With the opening of the Travancore University the growth of higher education was accelerated in the state. Restrictions in lower castes in government schools were removed in 1911-1912. In 1917 rural schools were also started for the benefit of the pupils who were unable to going for education due to poverty or other cause. In view of the people’s demand and the collegiate level institutions in the state, on I st November 1937, the University of Travancore was established and incorporated under the Travancore University Act 1937-38. With the opening of the Travancore University the growth of higher education was accelerated in the state.Travancore university , now known as university of keralaEducation in Cochin As was done in Travancore, in Cochin also missionary efforts at starting English Education began during the second decade of the nineteenth century. The first attempt to introduce the study of the English language was made by a CMS missionary Rev. J Dawson, who opened an English school at Mattancheri in 1818, in aid of which he received a grant from the Government. The school did not take in root and it had to be closed down within three years.Saint Chavara Ellias Kuriakose , a Kerala Christian priest founded First Kerala Catholic Sanskrit school in 1846 which he admitted students from every caste and religion even the Dalits.( Remember this was of the time where only Brahmins had the right for ). He created the first primary school of Kerala in 1864 and many other educational institutions during his lifetime. Being a Christian priest, he alloweded Catholics to get English education which was something not alloweded in this era and only Syrian Christians had the right to get it. Thanks to him, I am writing in Quora hereIn 1864, the Bishop put out an warning statement that every Christian Church ( palli) should establish a school next to them. In Malayalam , school is called pallikudam( kudan means attached to church). Chavara achan took a great interest in implementing this circular. The mid day meal program was his orginal idea and inspired by this Sir C.P of Travancore adopted this program on every government school. He has a immense credit at reforming education in Kerala.The educational history of Cochin was, till late in the 1880’s one of opening more and more English schools and raising some of the existing ones to the level of colleges. Sealy was appointed the first Director of Public Instructions in Cochin ‘(K.V.Eapen :1986). The first set of rules for grand in aid to private schools was framed in 1889, subsequent to which a large number of private aided schools sprang up. The education of the common man received attention of the Cochin Government only as late as 1890. The active efforts of the state as well as of private agencies helped the spread of western education in Cochin. The closing decades of the 19th century laid strong foundation for the development of a wide based educational structure during the subsequent decades. During the first decade of itself many measures were taken to improve the educational standards of the states. The important measure taken up was the framing of an educational code by the government in 1911 (C.M Ramachandran:1987). Consequent on the grand in aid given by the government a large number of schools sprang up under private management. The rules for giving aid were revised in 1921 which encouraged the private agencies to open school. Figure 2 Growth in Number of Schools in Cochin Source: Cochin Administrative Report, Relevant years. In 1947 Cochin had three government colleges and two private colleges. The state of Cochin was integrated with the state Travancore and a new state of Travancore Cochin was formed on 1st July, 1949. This merger of the two princely state paved way for the formation of democratic government in the state. Till 1949 the colleges of Cochin were affiliated to the Madras University but with the formation of new state the colleges came under the control of government. However the private colleges continued their affiliation under the Madras University. When the state of Kerala was formed in 1956, these colleges were brought under the department of collegiate education, with their affiliation to the newly formed Kerala University (C.M Ramachandran: 1987). Education in Malabar Malabar became part of the British administration at the end of the 18th century. But the western educational activities started their only very late. The indigenous system continued to exist among the different castes of Hindus, Muslims and Christians. The growth of western education was slower in Malabar than in the other two regions (A.R.Kamat:1989). Besides, even the development of education which began after 1835 was strictly based on the infiltration which gave more emphasis to higher levels of school education and collegiate education than primary education. The credit for having laid the foundations of western education in Malabar area goes to the ‘Basal German Evangelical Mission’. Basel Mission in Malabar, founded by Herman Gundert, actively engaged in educational activities in the middle of the 19th century (E. T. Mathew :1991). Among the colleges started in this region, the earliest ones were Zamorin’s Guruvayurappan College (Calicut), Victoria College (Palakkad) and Brennen College (Thalassery). In Malabar, the government’s attention to the cause of promotion of Malayalam education began only in 1921.This period had coincided with the Moplah rebellion and with the period of transfer of partial control of central education department to Indians under the provisions of the Government of India Act of 1919. In Malabar, serious attention was given to the development of primary education supported by grants from the Madras government. The educational disparities that existed between Malabar and the other two regions of Kerala have narrowed down quite rapidly during the past quarter of a century as a result of the deliberate policy of special educational encouragement given to the former region.When India became independent in 1947, Malabar continued to be a district of Madras state. The colleges in Malabar were affiliated to the Madras University. It was added to Travancore-Cochin, as a result of the formation of the linguistic state if India, to form part of the united Kerala state (C.M Ramachandran:1987). However with the enactment of the Kerala University Act in 1957, all colleges in Kerala were brought under the control of the only University in the state then. Thus the Kerala University Act of 1957 transformed the character of the erstwhile Travancore University very creditablyAs a result ater Independence, when Kerala was formed, despite of the economic stagnation that the state faced , Kerala had a high literacy rate when compared to the national percentage, what your aforementioned exaggerated governance model did was to utilize it , they invested to create a sustainable development in education sector. Today, Kerala has the largest literacy rate. It is the same exaggerated governance model which made the effect in education that you see today.Pre Independent Kerala laid down the foundation of education in the state whereas Kerala of Independent lndia finished the building of Education. Education gifted high literacy rate, high school enrollment rate, good employment rate ,destroyed the gender inequality and casteism to an extentComing to the health sectorKerala has a long history of organized health care. Before the advent of European medicine, families of practitioners of indigenous systems like Ayurveda handed their traditions from generation to generation. People were accustomed to approaching caregivers when they were sick, rather than turning to self-treatment. When the colonial powers established their presence in the region, they brought their medical system with them. In the 19th century, the princely rulers of the erstwhile states of Travancore and Cochin (which later were integrated into the state of Kerala along with the Malabar district of the Madras presidency in British India) took the initiative in making the western system of care available to their subjects. A royal proclamation of 1879 made vaccination compulsory for public servants, prisoners and students. All heads of public departments were instructed to see that those under their care and control were vaccinated. Administrative reports indicate that public health authorities were also concerned about the spread of cholera during fairs and festivals, and initiated measures of containment. In 1928, under the auspices of the Travancore government and with the help of the Rockefeller foundation, parasite surveys were conducted in Travancore which led to measures to control hookworm and filariasis. A health unit incorporating many of the concepts of primary health care was also started in a rural area. Development of health services was not confined to the provision of preventive care – the general hospitals in Trivandrum and Cochin are about 150 years old. Initiatives were also taken to get members of the respective states who were trained in western medicine into key posts in the government service. The appointment of Dr Mary Punnen Lukose as the surgeon-general of Travancore in the early years of the 20th century is a case in point.Family photo of Mary Poonen LukoseA doctor trained in England, she was the first woman to be appointed surgeon-general in an Indian state, at a time when women doctors were still a rarity in Europe and America. Development of health services was complemented by other parallel events: initiatives to provide safe drinking water (in the capital city of Trivandrum initially) and the provision of state supported primary education, including education for women. Though schooling had not reached today’s levels of coverage, the first steps were taken. Another important factor was the establishment of mission hospitals in remote areas under the auspices of Christian churches. Young girls from the Christian community in Kerala were keen to take up nursing as a career. At the time of formation of the present Kerala state on 1 November 1956, the foundation for a medical care system accessible to all citizens was already laid. One indicator of the government’s commitment to health services provision is the proportion of government expenditure set apart for health. From the time of the state’s formation, the government’s budget allocation for health was considerable. Social sectors, mainly comprising education and health, accounted for a large share of the government development expenditure. The period from state formation to the early 1980s was characterized by great growth and expansion of the government health services. Figures show the annual compound growth rate of government health care expenditure for the period at 13.04% (at current prices, without deflation), outstripping both the annual compound growth rate of total government expenditure at 12.45% and the annual compound growth rate of the state domestic product at 9.81%.2From 1961 to 1986, the state greatly expanded its government health facilities. The number of beds and institutions increased sharply. The total number of beds in government hospitals in the western medical sector increased from around 13 000 in 1960–61 to 20 000 in 1970–71, and 29 000 in 1980–81. By 1986, the total was 36 000. Estimates in 1996 put the number at 38 000. Thus the major growth phase of facilities in the government sector was before 1986, after which it slowed considerably. Fiscal crisis in the government and its effect on health services The period from the mid-1970s to the early 1990s has been termed a period of ‘fiscal crisis’ for the state government. There was unprecedented growth in revenue deficits – the excess of government expenditure over revenue – which has been well documented in recent studies. Though budgetary deficit has become a common feature for all states in India, the magnitude of the deficit in Kerala has been steadily growing and is substantively higher than the All-States average in India as a whole. During this time, expenditure on health shows that after an initial slowing down of the growth of average annual total expenditure in real terms from 1975–79 to 1980–84 ,( growth recovered from 1985–89 through 1990–94. Plan expenditure, which is supported by grants from central government, did not contribute to the initial setback; in fact, plan expenditure grew from 1975–79 to 1980–84. Plan expenditure consists mainly of expenditure on central government schemes such as national disease control programs. As such, the component of capital expenditure is larger in plan expenditure. Non-plan expenditure is the major chunk of government expenditure on health and is contributed by the state government. Revenue expenditure, which includes a large component of salaries, constitutes the larger share of non-plan expenditure. By 1990–94 the central government severely curtailed spending on health as a natural consequence of its own policies; this is reflected in the reduced plan expenditure in Kerala.During1985–86 to 1995–96 the proportion of government expenditure on health was maintained in spite of a large fiscal deficit . However, adjustments were made in reaction to the fiscal situation. Analysis shows that capital spending (buildings and infrastructure) stagnated by the mid-1980s before decline , whereas revenue spending (salaries and consumables)continued to grow into the 1990s. This is due to the salary component in revenue expenditure, which showed no sign of diminishing during most of this period. In view of the state’s socio-political environment, characterized by a high awareness of their political rights by the organized labor force, including government employees, this is not surprising. Successive governments, being committed to growing expenditure on salaries because of increases both in jobs created and in pay, resorted to cutting back supplies when faced with growing fiscal difficulty. Spending on supplies shows a definite downturn by the latter half of the 1980s (in state government accounting, ‘supplies’ includes drugs and other consumables such as linen, minor equipment, suture materials, etc). This had a major affect on the secondary sector, consisting of the district and taluk(sub-unit or district) hospitals, and the primary sector, consisting of primary health centers .Since these accounted for a majority of beds in the health services most accessible to the common people, the quality of medical care in the government hospitals must have been affected. We can only arrive at this conclusion from indirect evidence. An extensive survey of 10 000 households by a voluntary organization in 1987 found that overall only 23% of households regularly utilized the government health services. Even in the poorest stratum this share was as low as 33%,declining steadily to 8% among the most affluent households. The reasons stated for not using government institutions included ‘non-availability of drugs in the government hospitals’, ‘lack of proper attention’ and ‘better behavior in private insitutions’.7The government has been well aware of the increasing scarcity of funds in the health sector. In government hospitals in Kerala, only households with incomes below a certain level are entitled to free services. The government has fixed user charges for all others, and these have existed for a long time. In spirit, this law ensures that the benefit of subsidy goes to Historical development of health care in Kerala.In Health sector too, awareness, importance and the most basic foundation was laid down by Kerala of pre independent India whereas it was finished building by Kerala of Independent lndia and is modified by each government that rules and is still modifying. Here to, it is the so called exaggerated governance model which build up the health sector which increased the life expectancy, infant Mortality Rate.In a nutshell, I agree to the fact that geography had played a role in development but the role was little. It is the excellent governance model laid down by both the governments which ultimately led to the high HDI of what you see today. If you address this governance as an exaggeration , then it will be the greatest hypocrisy. Lastly, people boast when they have achieved something other people fails to or when they achieve something rare. It is the natural tendency of human beings. We have achieved it through hard work and we have the right to boast about it as we have the right to express given by the Indian government.Hope it helpsJ.JRead more on:Kerala can leapfrog into a new world by 2030 if it transforms economy beyond conventional bounds: P Chidambaramhttps://www.thehindubusinessline.com/opinion/a-new-economic-architecture-for-kerala/article31776906.ece

My opinion of that argument is that it can have merit but that it is typically short-sighted and focused on ideology over best practice.I’ve always thought that government should be as small and efficient as possible to do what it needs to do. Within that framework, the typical conservative/libertarian argument about waste and inefficiency needs to be kept in mind. Ideally, it serves as a constant check against overreach by government. In practice, conservative and libertarian orthodoxy frequently insists that anything and everything is better in private hands. Instead of working to find ways to make existing government institutions more efficient, they focus on cutting funding and eliminating institutions entirely. Sometimes they’re really sneaky about it by restricting funding and then pointing to the resulting drop in quality or capabilities as evidence of the poor general performance of government institutions, “strengthening” their argument for cuts and privatization.The problem as I see it is that government is far better suited than private industry to perform a limited range of essential services. These are typically things that are of public benefit but aren’t particularly profitable. These include:Education: schools that serve poor and/or sparsely-populated communities would never be profitable in private hands. But from the perspective of public good, they serve to produce better-educated citizens and get us closer to a real meritocracy by providing equal opportunity to every child (at least when those facilities are properly funded and scoped, which they currently are not). In private hands, schooling would disappear from many areas and would have wildly different outcomes, largely dependent on the wealth of the parents. Such a system would quickly cement existing socioeconomic gaps and create enduring and entrenched classes in society with very little mobility, regardless of merit. It would drastically increase income inequality and lead to instability.Infrastructure: roads, utilities, and other infrastructure would be profitable to build and maintain in very dense areas and along major trade routes…but not anywhere else. By having the government “waste” money on nationwide infrastructure, it allows for businesses throughout the country to compete…otherwise almost all commerce would quickly become focused in port cities and along one or two major trade corridors between the coasts. Live anywhere else and you’d have to pay through the nose to get any infrastructure…and most of the jobs would move away anyways.Research: basic research is a slog…a hunt for answers that follows any lead that researchers can think of. For every aha finding, it seems that there are hundreds or thousands of dead ends. But that’s how it works. New things aren’t discovered by deciding on an answer beforehand and working backwards to confirm it. New things are found by examining all kinds of crazy possibilities. It’s expensive and many of the findings don’t turn out to be commercially useful. But all of that is necessary to uncover the gems that are of scientific and/or commercial value…and government-funded research through universities and research facilities are a huge driver for the economy. In private hands, the vast majority of basic research proposals would be shot down for not having a clear path to a viable product or service…which could lead to a tremendous number of missed opportunities in every field imaginable.Defense: it seems like this one gets no argument from conservatives but gets at least some argument from many libertarians. Overall, it should be noted that waste and inefficiency needs to be examined and fixed in the military just as much as in other government institutions. Still, can you imagine what national defense would look like in purely private hands? It’s an extremely strange thought and could be rife with abuse.Healthcare: unless we want people to die on the streets if they can’t afford astronomical health costs, we’re paying for all of that healthcare either way. Rich people can toss money at it, the middle class is already getting corporate healthcare subsidized by the government, and poorer people have to gamble…get sick and you lose everything (and us taxpayers are paying for it anyways). What a crappy crappy system. But, if the government requires everyone to get insurance and subsidizes it (or just provides universal healthcare), everyone gets coverage, costs go down (because a: more expensive treatments are not needed as often when problems are caught early, b: a national system can eliminate some (if not a whole bunch) of the administrative and overhead costs that make our system so horrendously expensive, c: you can’t be price-gouged for things like pre-existing conditions or diseases that you had no control over, d: more healthy people are included, which pulls costs down). Government intervention in healthcare can also force our healthcare system to generate accurate pricing, regulate or even eliminate insurers (thereby transferring obscene profits back into the hands of citizens and/or the healthcare system), and negotiate for better drug prices. I’d go on but this topic is covered and debated in plenty of other Quora questions.Emergency Services: this gets brought up a lot but would you really want to have to pay out of pocket for police or fire coverage? If you lived in a dense area, it might be decently cheap…but if you live in a suburb or rural area, your costs would go up dramatically or the services wouldn’t be available at all.Welfare: food, shelter, job training, transportation…you might think that private charity is more than good enough for these kinds of things but private charity tends to be less efficient than the government, is focused on single things, and relies upon marketing themselves to people to gain attention for their needs. And that means that resources aren’t distributed efficiently to solve problems. When a single entity (the government) handles these things, they know when, where, and how much to support a population in need and they can unilaterally supply it. Otherwise you get a flood of teddy bears and canned beans to one spot from some charities, some others run off with a bunch of your money, and yet others advocating for other places in need never get your attention. Taken at scale, charities are wasteful and inefficient for many issues within our borders.Product Safety: in a fully privatized world with minimal or no regulation, it would be ludicrously easy for a company to pump out the cheapest stuff possible, charge you as much as possible, and have little to no responsibility if their product gives you all of the cancer. Our government does a lot of work to regulate and monitor industry to ensure that they aren’t taking shortcuts and provides recourse (if sometimes not enough) for citizens to fight back against corporate malfeasance . The idea of corporations self-regulating is laughable. In a privatized world, they’d have no incentive to do so. Some undoubtedly would try to market themselves honestly as do-good companies and would probably succeed…but in many cases they’d be undercut by ruthless competition seeking the cheapest ways to get what they need. Better hope that there’s at least some safeguards against monopolies, otherwise say goodbye to any kind of accountability. And if those corporations had control of media, you can bet you’d never hear anything about any wrongdoing except through whispered anecdotes.Without many of these government functions, you’re basically talking about reverting to something closer to a feudal society, where most people rely upon the good graces of a rich patron or large corporation to provide them with what they need. It’s like how people have to take to Go Fund Me to get money for medical treatment…and the vast majority don’t get nearly enough. It is frankly disgusting and embarrassing that a country as advanced as ours has citizens that need to beg and plead for financial assistance for medical help because they’d be bankrupted otherwise.Advancement wouldn’t be based on merit so much as impressing and showing loyalty to the current upper class.There’s a reason why societal advancement over the centuries has seen an almost continual increase in the responsibilities of centralized government: as individuals we can’t deal with the huge numbers of things that keep a modern lifestyle running. We can’t check every single little thing that we buy or use or eat to make sure it’s not going to harm us…we can’t contribute to an industrial/knowledge economy while simultaneously managing all of those things that government currently takes care of.Because here’s the reality of public vs private priorities:Private industry has a responsibility to provide financial success to their shareholders. That is the primary driver. It is up to the company to decide, within regulations, how to go about maximizing those profits. If a company is smart, they will do so through careful investment in their technology, people, products, customers, and community. But many of them are held ruthlessly by activist investors to a quarter-by-quarter mandate to always always always have profit. And this means that they sometimes sacrifice their long-term well being (and that of their employees, it seems) or they’ll be punished severely by Wall Street. Without government regulation, they’d be incentivized only to maximize their profits…what do you think they’d do?It is in the government’s best interest to have productive, healthy, happy citizens. Why? Because productive citizens, who tend to be educated and well-connected via infrastructure, get paid more and therefore buy more…and that means more economic activity…all of which gets taxed. Healthy citizens cost less to support and are more productive. And happy citizens are ones that are happy with the way things are going and are more likely to keep voting for whoever’s in office. Unless of course your ideologies don’t actually help keep people happy…in which case you have to keep them afraid or angry enough to ignore those inconvenient facts and keep voting for you. It’s also in the government’s best interest to have productive, healthy, and happy private industries…and so they must cater to the needs of corporations as well. It’s just that over the past few decades, the government has catered far more to corporate interests than citizens’ interests.Since the late 80s/early 90s, we’ve been living in a more conservative/libertarian environment where private industry has been getting more power and influence and government institutions aren’t given the attention needed to make them more lean and efficient (including defense). As a result, real wages have stagnated as productivity has continued to rise, corporations have shifted manufacturing jobs to automation and overseas (without any programs, private or public, to help deal with that change), wealth is accumulating at the very top at an accelerated rate (where it isn’t doing anything except making more of itself for the richest people), and government institutions are under constant threat of cuts and elimination.Given these trends, do we really think it’s a good idea to transfer more responsibility from government to private interests? Most economic activity is better in private hands…but for those essential things? The things that keep us alive and productive and that protect us from bad luck? Private interests will shrug, convince everyone it was your fault anyways, and leave you to die in a gutter…it’s just not profitable in Q3 to turn you back into a productive citizen.Government is a bit like parents: if it’s a bad set of parents, it can be overbearing and annoying, telling you exactly what you can and can’t do and generally stifling your flair, as it were (this is how conservatives and libertarians view it, I believe)…but if it’s a good set of parents, it will make sure you have everything you need to succeed and will keep helping you no matter what because it wants you to succeed. Is our government a good set of parents or a bad one? Think about it…is there really anything that our government is actually trying to demand from you or take away from you that’s unreasonable to live in a safe and productive society (because there is a cost to that)? Our government is currently like a pair of arguing parents that are so caught up in debate that they aren’t doing a good job of setting us up for success…with one side insisting that kicking us out the curb is best for us.Private industry is a bit like the big box store down the road. When you’re not in the store, they don’t care what you do and they don’t get into your business. But, they make sure that you see their ads…and when you’re in their store, they use every trick they legally can to get you to buy things. But the awesome thing is that you’re absolutely free to buy whatever you want in whatever quantities you want and in whatever combinations…it’s all up to you…no one telling you what you can and can’t buy (with some legal restrictions). And the store can stock whatever it wants (again, with some restrictions) in whatever way it wants. It’s a great experience…so much freedom…but if something goes wrong, they don’t give a shit about you. To them, you are a source of profit, nothing else. They will go as far as they need to get you in and if they can get rid of nearby big box stores or little stores, then they don’t really need to even be nice to you. They have what you need and they’ll charge whatever they can get away with charging for it. If you get sick in the store, they kick you out and let someone else handle it…if you can’t pay, they kick you out and let someone else handle it…if you try to negotiate, they laugh you right out of the store. If you’re rich, you can bet they’ll love you and cater to your needs. If not, well, they’ll keep an eye on you, you suspicious low-life. They have no obligation to you and no incentive to take care of you.I hope the above shows why we need both…and why both need to be healthy and balanced. Either one can be awful if allowed too much power. But both can be very good for us if limited to what they do best. Would you want your parents to decide on your medical treatment plan…or Wal-Mart? Would you want to buy your next video game from a selection dictated by your parents or from Steam? Do you want to get your clothes from the mall or from your parents’ closet? Do you want to send your kids to a school run by people that your parents trust and vouch for…or one run by whatever company or church in your town bid the most?