Oddbean new post about login | logout The good news is that governments are mostly incompetent
Are they really? They may provide shit services to the slave class but it seems to me they're very good at their actual business
What services do they provide that you marked as 5 stars on yelp?
I mean for Fucks Sake 20 years after invading Afghanistan DC handed it all back to the Taliban along with 30 billion dollars worth of weapons Was that a 5 star operation?
So? It's only the slave class who had to foot the bill, kill and die that were at a loss. The state corp came out of it victorious and probably created more problems it'll step in to solve in the not too distant future
Afghanistan may look like a fiasco from the perspective of someone who thinks the state works for them
It may have been pure dumb luck that it drained the treasury for 20 years Or not Point taken I still maintain that government is mainly incompetent but you are correct there are schemes and scams that hide behind incompetence but in reality is just a gravy train for the insiders
Draining the treasury was kinda the point. The slaves' money is stolen from them and put into the kitty while the military-industrial complex and other interest groups drain it It may look like incompetence but in actuality, it's well executed malice
Yes the state is pretty good at wealth redistribution. The greater the failure, the longer the blunder, the further over budget then the greater the distribution will be. Incompetence is built right in to the business model. Money from the many to the chosen few.