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> If Healthcare.gov bombed... whose head rolled? Is your claim here that corporations are able to correctly assign responsibility for major failures? Why do yo
by somesortofthing 4y ago
> If Healthcare.gov bombed... whose head rolled?
Is your claim here that corporations are able to correctly assign responsibility for major failures? Why do you think this? There are so many ways to deflect blame for your failures onto others while taking full credit for successes you had nothing to do with in the private sector.
- gamegoblin 4y agoNot exactly -- my claim is the the most successful organizations (both governmental and private) have high alignment between power and responsibility. This produces good incentives. Bureaucracies (both governmental and private) tend towards poor alignment for the reasons I outlined. Most mature companies eventually become bureaucracies, a process I like to refer to as "becoming IBM". Big tech companies (e.g. Google, Amazon) are well on their way to becoming IBM, and much of the dysfunction is exactly due to your point about deflecting blame and taking credit for successes. So the distinction is not between government vs private, but rather bureaucracy vs non-bureaucracy. Many governments, such as the US, do tend to be highly bureaucratic -- much more so than e.g. IBM.