@AlSweigart @jasongorman In my experience, having worked in both public and private organisations on 4 continents, from the oil business to international NGOs, the most wasteful by far were large private sector companies.
When the alternative to profligacy is paying tax it's an easy decision for some.
@samueljohnson
Not surprising, considering they get as bureaucratic and inefficient when they grow this big and their power to influence things in a way that is beneficial only to them and no one else gets very close to that of a state, but their primary goal of making profits remains intact 🤷
@m0xee @samueljohnson @AlSweigart @jasongorman You think inter-departmental rivalries in public/governmental entities are wasteful? Try those when the C-suite arseholes are looking for ways to cut the budget and increase profits. That's where the real nasty™ begins.
@Illuminatus
I really like these words by Joseph Stiglitz, it's not an exact quote, I do it by memory, and I have only read this book, it's either from The Price of Inequality or from The Great Divide, in translation, but it's something like this: some seem to believe that money spent in the private sector is spent efficiently even if it's spent in the casino — I think it's very spot-on 😂
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