GP said: "Being profit driven does make things magically better. Countries like India... the market."
Which neglects the superstructure on which the current growth story is based and also neglects the huge human and environmental cost of privatization even when it enables growth as [1] will tell you.
And that's why it's a terrible example to illustrate the value of private prisons in the US since those prisons also prey upon the most vulnerable and marginalized communities in that country.
In other words, GP's main point was to use India as an example for praising the merits of privatization vis-a-vis central planning there and then mapping that to the US to praise the privatization of prisons in comparison to state run prisons.
What, in fact, it shows is the exact opposite, that when it comes to services that need to put human welfare first and where money presents conflicts of interest, it's best done under the state umbrella or with strict supervision.
> the private sector boom is unimaginable without two generations of public investment
Neither of these are relevant to the point GP made.