&gt; Making a profit needs to be balanced with the reason the company is in business, (i.e. the needs of its customers), its employees, and the environment.<p>I completely agree. I also don&#x27;t think, that public sector is always optimal. Public institutions some times tend to be inefficient.<p>The problem, I see in many privatizations, is that profits are the main (and sometimes only) motive and any efficiency improvements are put into shareholder value instead into public benefit.