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Originally Posted by DMcCunney
That's actually always been the case. There are two factors at work.
First, bureaucracies exist for the care and feeding of the bureaucrats who work in them. The public they nominally serve comes second.
Second, you have the issue of how you define success. In a private, for profit business, you win by having more revenue and higher profits this year than last year. In a bureaucracy, you win by having plausible reasons to request a bigger budget and more staff next allocation period. There are occasional attempts to "make government more efficient" by bringing ion successful private business executives to run departments, but those private business guys got the nod because they were winners. They very quickly figure out the rules of the new game and start winning there, too. Unfortunately, "winning" consists of doing all the things they were brought in to change...
Yep. I'm in occasional contract wit the "tin foil hat" crowd elsewhere, who are firmly convinced that Microsoft is in league with the NSA, and has left back doors in Windows so the government can snoop on their computers.
All I can saw is "You wish you were important enough that anyone could be bothered to do that to you. While there are intelligence agency types who do that, there aren't that many of them, and the ones that do exist all have for more important things to do with their time."
Classical paranoia is a defense mechanism. What the paranoid is really afraid of, on a level they can't even admit to themselves, is that they don't matter and no one cares about them. If you can buy into a paranoid fantasy, hey! You're important! You matter! Someone cares enough about you to take the trouble to try to get you.
Personally, I'm not important. Save to family and a few close friends, I don't matter. No one in power cares what I think or do. And you know what? I like that status. Anonymity provides far greater freedom of movement.
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Dennis
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Hear! Hear! The Conway Costogian way of life.... the only downside is you have to settle for common, inexpensive toys...