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).

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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Is the school system failing today’s students?

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.