Comment by conception

2 days ago

Exactly, people who think the government is inefficient has never worked at any company of scale ever. All large organizations are inefficient.

A major problem of the US is just corruption. If people went to jail for things like congressional insider trading, we’d solve a lot of these issues.

All large organizations are inefficient.

I agree, and that’s the case for dismantling as much of the federal government as possible - it is too big to work. Break up Apple, Google, Amazon, Washington DC.

  • You’re forgetting the corollary - all small organizations are also inefficient, just at different things.

    It’s all trade offs - do you want everyone in your country to have a baseline education that can be relied on as a given but perhaps it suffers in its administration and effectiveness? Or are you OK with pockets of your country having tremendous quality of education and others having very poor quality, as an example.