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A common criticism of the defense industry, or relating to government contractors in all industries, is misaligned incentives. Military contractors are incentiv
by briantakita 3y ago
A common criticism of the defense industry, or relating to government contractors in all industries, is misaligned incentives. Military contractors are incentivized to maximize profit, not win wars. Health care contractors are incentivized to maximize profit, not care for people. Technology contractors are incentivized to maximize profit, not innovate. And so on...
Which may explain why Russia's military is more effective than US led NATO. Or why US Health Care is relatively expensive compared to other countries offering equivalent care. Or why massive tech initiatives need to be rescued or are a costly failure.
- ranger207 3y agoIf you want to point to misaligned incentives, I don't think a conscript army like Russia's is a good counterexample. In fact, they're probably the prime example of how misaligned incentives makes an organization less effective.
- briantakita 3y agoI'll leave it to the Russians to determine if they are achieving their publicly stated goals or not. In the meantime, I think we should focus on helping our government better & more efficiently serve the people in America...rather than flooding the world with weapons, publically lecturing about "values" while privately destabilizing governments abroad & arming genocidal maniacs & Banderite Nazis...while disproportionately enriching select contractors & politically entrenched institutions.