Every now and then, a discussion is brought up if private for-profit organizations providing social services should be allowed to make a profit from their services. In 2022 European  Commissioner  Schmit  questioned  private  companies  making  profit on public services. “I think we are now in a process where finally the real idea of neoliberal capitalism has lost some attractiveness,” Schmit told EURACTIV, referring  to the neoliberal economist Milton Friedman. In a 1970 essay, Friedman famously claimed that “the social responsibility of business is to increase its profits.”