Going on a tangent sorry, you started it! So... in a private company the employees are very often a lot more beholden to the managers/owners, so top-down

Going on a tangent sorry, you started it! So... in a private company the employees are very often a lot more beholden to the managers/owners, so top-down command and control can be applied a lot more than in an administration where job security is often much higher. For better or for worse, this can result in a lot more bottom-up decision-making... In view of general wastefulness, lack of longer term (environmental) planning, I would challenge the "working fine" a bit.