Do you see the irony arguing that businesses optimize for the short term while government is efficient at allocating for the long term while talking about a sto

Do you see the irony arguing that businesses optimize for the short term while government is efficient at allocating for the long term while talking about a story in which the government sold the rights to long term cashflows to private hands for a short term windfall? It looks like the business optimized for the long term while government optimized for short term