Legitimate transitions

Continuing this post,  the point of the private-public partnership model is not that "everyone's attention is co-opted [...] safeguarding one's income stream" as someone replied elsewhere. If you read Rifkin's book, and investigate what is happening on the ground in the EU regions already implementing the GND, the public ownership and management of renewable energy is providing a framework for values beyond that. And when the private company works within that framework it is not only exposed to those values, it is contracted to work within them or it doesn't get paid. It seems like a valid transition step toward the new paradigm and effectively addresses Daniel's notion of existing businesses to "at least experiment with preparing for this transformation." We have to provide a means to get there from here. We can't just expect private business to leap into the new paradigm because we think we make a better argument for it.