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this is how our entire federal apparatus works these days. our government is profoundly broken but we lack the will to acknowledge it. I have about 20 years of
by gnarbarian 2y ago
this is how our entire federal apparatus works these days. our government is profoundly broken but we lack the will to acknowledge it.
I have about 20 years of experience in Federal contracting.
we have nothing but process and zero accountability. It's literally a miracle anything ever gets completed.
we sink billions of dollars into projects that are forecast to have dubious economic benefits and then we never bother to see if it actually worked out the way the economics were justified.
empower programs and leaders to buck policy and regulations but make them accountable for failure of their core mission.
compensate leaders who save money by doing more with less.
etc.
- rbanffy 2y ago> compensate leaders who save money by doing more with less. This is a recipe for burnout
- gnarbarian 2y agowe have the opposite problem in government
- rbanffy 2y agoGovernment isn’t meant to be efficient. It’s meant to be strategic and to do both the fundamentals everyone needs access to and the things private enterprise won’t do because they are not profitable yet.
- gnarbarian 2y agocome work here for 20 years and tell me how you feel about it after.
- rbanffy 2y agoThe US doesn’t really understand or appreciate that concept. Also, NASA’s job is not to explore the universe, but to prevent rocket scientists from defecting to North Korea. And to develop technology SpaceX and others will later use. A lot of CFD work was pioneered there, for instance. There would be no SpaceX, or Blue Origin, or ULA without NASA.