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Comment by fastball

3 days ago

Yes, the US Federal Government, famous for doing things efficiently and cheaply when no private contractors are involved.

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Retric  3 days ago

The quiet parks of government really are, privatizing the VA was looked into several times but the numbers were prohibitive.

It took me a while to realize there’s just less money to be made when the system actually works.

  • fastball  2 days ago

    Realistically this is only because our private sector in that area is incredibly broken, not because the government is doing an incredible job.

    • Retric  2 days ago

      There’s many other comparisons where the government comes out ahead when you balance quality of what’s done vs cost. The overhead of the social security administration is far lower than other pensions, and that’s with everyone else piggybacking backing off your SSN. Some of this is scale but economies of scale only go so far.

Wololooo  3 days ago

Some things cannot be done cheaply or extremely efficiently but needs to be done.

One of the reason for governments to exist is to deliver services to the communities that, by essence, should not be seen as primarily a source of revenue, but enabling communities to thrive in order to generate an environment where the generation of wealth for the community is facilitated.

And tell me how actually efficient and cost saving having many entities that have as sole mission to generate profit really helped (take a look at privatisation of any entities that were of public interest and the good that it did long term... Spoilers It didn't...)

  • mlinhares  3 days ago

    No natural monopolies should ever be privatized and there's no reason to have more than one entity collecting weather data. Also, this has been one of the best and most reliable services provided by the government, no one ever bothers thinking about the weather because its always there and it is also very right.

    Maybe they were just too good and now everyone thinks this is easy and every single other country works like this with weather service. I'm in florida and I know i'm fucked this hurricane season.