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Better work-life balance The surging demand for public service jobs is also the result of an increasingly disillusioned young population losing faith in private enterprises and attaching greater importance to work-life balance, experts say.
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Anniek Bao, CNBC, 16 Dec. 2025
What is more, harsh economic sanctions designed to punish regimes often instead end up punishing ordinary people and driving private enterprises either out of business or into the hands of the regime for help.
—Stephen Kotkin, Foreign Affairs, 16 Dec. 2025
In his view, a version of capitalism in which an alliance of private enterprise and state power protected the interests of its titans was superseded by a regime that, for the first time, really protected the interests of its titans.
—Gideon Lewis-Kraus, New Yorker, 24 Nov. 2025
Governments redirect resources to defense, constrain private enterprise, or shift entire regions into wartime production.
—Ugo Troiano, Oc Register, 25 Oct. 2025
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Anniek Bao, CNBC, 16 Dec. 2025
What is more, harsh economic sanctions designed to punish regimes often instead end up punishing ordinary people and driving private enterprises either out of business or into the hands of the regime for help.
—Stephen Kotkin, Foreign Affairs, 16 Dec. 2025
In his view, a version of capitalism in which an alliance of private enterprise and state power protected the interests of its titans was superseded by a regime that, for the first time, really protected the interests of its titans.
—Gideon Lewis-Kraus, New Yorker, 24 Nov. 2025
Governments redirect resources to defense, constrain private enterprise, or shift entire regions into wartime production.
—Ugo Troiano, Oc Register, 25 Oct. 2025
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“Private enterprise.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/private%20enterprise. Accessed 29 Dec. 2025.
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