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Trump ‘To Appoint Musk’ To Gov’t Efficiency Role If Elected
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I'm getting really sick of the "conventional wisdom" that government is inefficient and wasteful when compared to private industry. Medicare for example can provide more healthcare per dollar than any private insurer despite subsidizing that industry.
Profit and marketing are inefficiencies because they add cost but no value.
Government is inefficient if you elect people who believe it is and set out to prove it.
People who say "run things like a business" don't know shit. Every job I've worked at has had tremendous waste, but no one was looking closely because it's private.
Like, right wing nut jobs would lose their shit if they learned a government office was buying fresh fruits for workers but most of it was going bad and being thrown out. But that happened every day for a while.
There's also been a lot of "why is this machine still running? How much are we paying AWS for this??"
There's also been a lot of "we don't need to do accessibility on our website because most of our customers don't care, and no one's making us ".
Yep, exactly. Also, look at how the USPS works.
Republican chuds: "Big Guvmit can't do anything right, it's the worst, they are hurting my freedom, argle bargle!"
Also Republican chuds: "Back the blue (unless they break up a terrorist action called in by our former failed president) and our military is the bestest and shiniest in the whole wide WURLD!"