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Originally Posted by Torture
True, but to single these out as "everything needs to operate like business" is kind of odd because there's lots of businesses that do a pretty crappy job at some of these things and doing them well is not the exclusive domain of business.  |
The biggest reason businesses are perceived to have higher efficiency isn't because the private sector is magic. It's because the lowest efficiency operations in most sectors get competed into the ground and close, and their market share is taken by their more efficient competitors.
An inefficient government department is unlikely to lose its funding to a more efficient competitor.