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Why is that worth noting? I feel like you're being intentionally ambiguous by leaving unstated implications. Do you believe public operation had an impact on s
by losteric 6y ago
Why is that worth noting? I feel like you're being intentionally ambiguous by leaving unstated implications.
Do you believe public operation had an impact on safety? Better or worse, and based on what evidence? If neither, how is your statement relevant to the discussion?
- Aerroon 6y agoI don't know why the parent poster brought it up, but it does seem relevant to me. The government isn't going after quick profits, so you can't blame it on that. You might be able to blame profits if it had been a private corporation though.
- skissane 6y agoThe public and private sectors are, in principle, equally capable of incompetence; the causes tend to be somewhat different, but the outcome can be the same.
- TheSpiceIsLife 6y agoProfits play a massive factor in why governments tend to be incompetent. What do you think taxes are? They're a wealth transfer without option from everyone else to those in the employ of government. A whole bunch of people are profit from government expenditure, we even have a word for a special type of fraud about government expenditure: pork barelling: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pork_barrel https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pork_barrel But, government run operations tend he notorious for incompetence for a few reasons, others have done a better job of detailing: https://www.bing.com/search?q=why+governments+are+notorious+for+incompetence&form=APIPH1&PC=APPL https://www.bing.com/search?q=why+governments+are+notorious+...