Having spent many years at government at different levels and in large companies as a consultant I disagree with a lot of that. Some government entities are g

Having spent many years at government at different levels and in large companies as a consultant I disagree with a lot of that. Some government entities are great, really efficient, some seem nearly like startups. Some are nearly all deadweight. A majority of the senior older folks working for in one of the state governments, would eat breakfast, read the newspaper, have lunch, and then try to do something for a couple of hours before going home. I was rather shocked. I was less so when I encountered it in other places. The government is an enormous group of entities. Some work well, most I think work ok, and some are horrors. (from a taxpayer perspective, not from the people who work there s perspective) There is a lot of dead weight in the private sector. The worst examples I have encountered are places where nepotism is king. Older companies seem to accrue dead weight over time. Especially with strong unions¹, But at some point some new CEO or some such makes attempts to clean house, sometimes it works, sometimes it doesn't. I am a huge supporter of unions and I think they are one of the only ways to try to get the US back on track again if enough people are unionized. BUt that is not a silver bullet either.