You’re thinking of it from the perspective of someone who cares about reality. At the scale most governments work, reality is impossible to actually care about

You’re thinking of it from the perspective of someone who cares about reality. At the scale most governments work, reality is impossible to actually care about. It’s too much detail, and too confusing. Instead, they allocate money, and then punish people when ‘the wrong things happen’. Dealing with the reality is someone else’s problem, further down the hierarchy. Also known as ‘shit rolls down hill’.