I spent most of my life working for private industry: Mom and pop shops, giant corporations, but also the military, universities, and even my share of retail and construction outfits. The relationship of employer to employee is what dominates, not whether its public or private.
I once had a long talk with a Russian emigre who had worked for a Soviet research bureau. He was my colleague at a major US oil company development laboratory--essentially, the same kind of work. I asked him what the difference was between the two.
He thought about it for a while and answered, "this pays better, otherwise its about the same."
Like in physics, the reality of industrial organization, the power hierarchies etc, are what dominate the human relationships and social structures, not the ideology.
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