Canada is like this (possibly worse). Nobody ever wants to do the ostensible thing that they say they are doing, if that makes sense. Take some kind of governm

Canada is like this (possibly worse). Nobody ever wants to do the ostensible thing that they say they are doing, if that makes sense. Take some kind of government procurement, say to buy a truck. The truck ends up being a pretense for all sorts of political things like regional development or righting some perceived historical inequality, doing an environmental study, subsidising some industry that's not doing well. Nobody cares about actually getting the truck. I can imagine a world where they just buy the best truck and don't try to make it a pretext for wealth redistribution and solving all the worlds problem, but I've never seen it. Multiply this by every single things the government spends money on (and in canada the oligopolies as well) and you see why nothing happens.