Comment by poincaredisk
2 days ago
Governments are not known for their efficiency. There are many reasons for that, for example working as part of the government comes with many rigid checks and bureaucracy, there is no competition so you can be arbitrarily inefficient, and there are no real consequences for anyone.
I would know, I work for the government.
On the other hand governments do some things that companies will not do, like deliver mail to very rural locations where the cost is much higher than the profit from postage. Or build space telescopes to do science that has no immediate return on investment.