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if you observed that the private contracting waste was where the real hemorrhaging was going on, then your problem was with all the privatized resources being p
by zzzeek 13y ago
if you observed that the private contracting waste was where the real hemorrhaging was going on, then your problem was with all the privatized resources being paid with public money - essentially the vast influence of the "free market" on a public resource that is not well suited to traditional free market forces. This article is specifically about the failure of privatized resources, such as charter schools, private donations delivered directly to contractors with no public oversight or review for the purposes of improving the public good. It is about billionaires with no experience or justification for being at the center of a complex public system attempting to inject gigantic, ad-hoc donations into systems they don't understand, and failing.
- api 13y agoNot a bad point. If I, say, donated $100million to Microsoft to improve the Windows UI and did not know precisely where to put that money in the company and what that money should be doing, it probably would not fare much better. Still: the waste I saw was incredible. There is definitely a systemic incentive problem in government, not to mention a problem with private contracting and oversight.