Comment by ddtaylor
7 hours ago
The government does most things poorly and with little regard to budget or quality. They can't solve problems that are much simpler than cloud computing, so why should I expect them to perform better at a more complex problem?
Sure. Your average private corporation would do much better at sanely evaluating Microsoft's cloud, and sanely acting on that evaluation.
Right.
You bet.
Absolutely.
Nope neither the public entity nor the private corporation... it should be the market. WE decide with our business who is worthy, or not. Nice try, comrade!
Fascinating.
Enlighten me further. How exactly will "the market" decide where the government, or a corporation, or even an individual, chooses to buy computing services? I'm very stupid, so you're going to have to explain step by step exactly how "the market" will do this. I mean, here I thought that choices like that were the inputs to the market.
Let's do it for the corporations first. I'm Microsoft. I need the market to decide for me where I should buy motherboards for my cloud data centers. Where do I apply to get "the market" to tell me that?
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I think this perspective has resolutely been debunked at this point.
The government has historically, routinely, consistently, solved problems more complex than cloud computing.
The only way you'd think otherwise is if you had some other motivation to pretend otherwise... some sort of ideology.
"Things government is great at:
-Running public schools -Running public transport -Running public utilities -Running public radio and TV -Running Amtrak -Running Fannie Mae/Freddie Mac -Running it own budget -Running the military -Running Heatlhcare.gov -Running the Postal Service -Running Social Security -Running Air Traffic Control
...and this is just in the United States. You should see countries where everything (or nearly everything) is government-run. I've been trying to immigrate from the US to Cuba, Venezuela, Laos, China, or North Korea for decades! It's absolutely paradise to be in a place where evil private corporations are not in control. It's been shown time and again that the government is the best at solving problems.
Just imagine how great Germany would have been if all of it would have been taken over by East Germany?
Sure, government run everything is not always perfect, but it's a heck of a lot better than the opposite."
...SAID NO ONE. EVER.
> The government does most things poorly and with little regard to budget or quality.
That's a common line by conservatives who are actively sabotaging government with policies and laws which they then point to as evidence of such inefficiencies.
Basically false. They're better at health care. Better at education. Better at feeding people. Better at charity.
Theres no need to be THIS cynical.
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