Or why not execute them instead? Worked very well for ages ...

More seriously, there usually are no simple solutions to complex problems. And government is a very complex problem. So many people with so many opinions - and everyone involved afraid to say one wrong word or make one wrong decision. I don't think more fear helps there.

I mean - prison for corruption - yes! But prison for incompetence, no. Then you also have to jail the people who put the incompetent person there in the first place and those people and so on.

> prison for corruption - yes! But prison for incompetence, no.

And how to decide which is which? Effectively there's not much difference

Just take back the salary when the city is net negative from their "experiments"

Yeah, but would you like to have your salary reclaimed later on, if they are not satisfied with your work?

Could you do calmy your job then? Or would the anxiety made you even more prone to misstakes?

Just make them responsible for the damages and it is no longer econimically viable to give projects to the bidder with the highest kickbacks but rather the ones that can acutally do the job.