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42 sats \ 4 replies \ @Aardvark OP 16 Feb \ parent \ on: Is the school system failing today’s students? AskSN
I bet you could find examples of private companies don't it better. Find the ones with government contracts, and see how much government money they figure out how to spend. When the incentives are there, I bet they figure out how to waste massive amounts.
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41 sats \ 3 replies \ @Undisciplined 16 Feb
That's a great point. It would be interesting to somehow compare the rate of administrative bloat in academia and medicine to that in the government itself. I don't know how to do that properly, but you might be onto something.
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23 sats \ 2 replies \ @Aardvark OP 16 Feb
It's definitely an example where the private sector is incentivized to waste. Probably look into contractors who work for the military for instance.
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41 sats \ 1 reply \ @Undisciplined 16 Feb
That was the example I had heard someone bring up. Military contractors produce death and destruction at a fraction of the cost (while paying their workers more).
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31 sats \ 0 replies \ @Aardvark OP 16 Feb
They probably waste more too. Right into their own pockets
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