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Gotta be honest, the "government is unreliable" crowd are not people I think of as honest. Government works fine, and for less money, if you actually try to make it work.

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They’re not. They take all the funding away, push for our tax money to go toward things that don’t help the overwhelming majority of citizens (and probably a similar number actively disagree with where taxes go, like bombing other countries), and then they create businesses to extract money from private individuals. They use it to create completely absurd and wasteful private industries for the soul purpose of making money. They aren’t solving problems, they’re exploiting problems they’ve created by undermining the government.

How unquantifiable.

The standard that government organizations run off of is "use up all the budget, or else your budget gets cut the next year". Are you going to lie and say that is not the case?

Be honest.

> use up all the budget, or else your budget gets cut the next year

I have worked at multiple large and successful tech companies, and groups in those companies operated under the same principles.

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