Nobody likes waste. But what a lot of people don’t realize is that, in many ways, government is *designed* to be inefficient. It’s structured with redundancy and complexity both for audit and control purposes and because it tries to satisfy multiple competing societal goals. 1/2
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btw i dont think anybody is arguing that we should cut waste what is being argued by sane ppl is that what elon trump and the gop are doing isnt that they are cutting things they dont like arbitrarily without any oversight or ya know legally
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They are Human Labour intensive.
They require serving people in their communities.
Often when those humans are struggling.
Those humans have rights, including privacy rights.
Humans are imperfect.
So yes - delivering human services will, out of necessity, be ‘inefficient’
see the cost of means testing exceeding the cost of giving out incorrectly targeted benefits
& the cost of creating administrative burdens
Just pillaging.
Just look at sports - a .400 season in baseball is looked at as a gold standard, but hidden in that is the person failed to get a hit nearly 60% of the time on the balls they put in play
I wish I knew why.
Government services exist precisely because public goods are inefficient.
Until it is possible to win the “populist low info voter” battle, I dont see a way to defeat “government inefficiency” framing.
Worked at a company with 1000 employees and it had inefficiencies galore, some because senior employees had different incentives but other reasons too. Bigger companies tend to have more inefficiencies.
"Let's hire some accountants to find out."
"Why are we paying for accountants instead of doctors? It's wasteful."
"Let's fire the accountants then."
"Yes, but what are you spending my taxes on?"
This is stuffing handfuls of adderal in your mouth while ripping out load bearing walls