Comment by DANmode

> I don't mean value-generating in the profiteering sense, but in the "this is worth operating on public funds because, ultimately, it is more than worth what tax payers put into it".

Very sure the amount those companies make yearly is worth saving.

> We tried to make a COVID-tracking app and spent $59.5 million, and it was an abject failure.

and then we just…kept letting those people stay in charge of spending our money.

and there’s a story of very expensive incompetency like that every quarter at minimum.