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Governments are not businesses, and should not be run as such. There are a lot of things that a government does that can't be measured as a direct monetary ben
by toomanybeersies 10y ago
Governments are not businesses, and should not be run as such.
There are a lot of things that a government does that can't be measured as a direct monetary benefit.
- derefr 10y agoI wasn't suggesting monetary ROI; rather, effectiveness at achieving whatever goal is in the department's charter to achieve, by whatever metric that goal is measured: QALYs for the surgeon general, victories for the army, average time-to-destination for the Department of Transportation, etc. Currently, we seem to just think of the government as a machine that turns dollars into achieved consensus goals at some fixed (very low) efficiency. We never seem to say "what if we measured [metric] out per dollar in, and then tried to make that ratio increase?"