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There are plenty of examples where government is vastly more efficient than private sector. Medicare is vastly more efficient than private insurance. USPS is mo
by mempko 1y ago
There are plenty of examples where government is vastly more efficient than private sector. Medicare is vastly more efficient than private insurance. USPS is more efficient than private carriers. Another example is government pay. Usually much lower than the equivalent job at a private sector company. That's because private sector companies fail ALL THE TIME, and the COST of that inefficiency (waste of a failed company) is passed on to you via higher prices for those functions.
Also efficiency shouldn't be the goal of everything we do all the time. Sometimes resilience is more important, which comes at the cost of efficiency.
- rahimnathwani 1y agoUsually much lower than the equivalent job at a private sector company. People often state this, without acknowledging that: - many government employees would not meet the bar for an equivalent job in the private sector - the environment and red tape means that even an equally skilled employee would be less productive than they would be in a private sector firm that's subject to competitive pressures - for many government employees, headline salary is only about a two thirds of total compensation (look up San Francisco employees' total comp on the Transparent California web site).
- mempko 1y agoI call bullshit. How do you know many government employees wouldn't meet the bar. This is just like, your opinion man.