Re:Mark Cuban offers to fund former 18f employees
by ThinkBeat on Sunday March 02, 2025 @10:37AM
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Having spent many years at government at different levels and in
large companies as a consultant I disagree with a lot of that.
Some government entities are great, really efficient, some seem
nearly like startups.
Some are nearly all deadweight.
A majority of the senior older folks working for in one of the state
governments, would eat breakfast, read the newspaper, have lunch,
and then try to do something for a couple of hours before going home.
I was rather shocked.
I was less so when I encountered it in other places.
The government is an enormous group of entities.
Some work well, most I think work ok, and some are horrors.
(from a taxpayer perspective, not from the people who work there s perspective)
There is a lot of dead weight in the private sector.
The worst examples I have encountered are places where nepotism is king.
Older companies seem to accrue dead weight over time.
Especially with strong unions¹,
But at some point some new CEO or some such makes attempts to
clean house, sometimes it works, sometimes it doesn't.
I am a huge supporter of unions and I think they are one of the only
ways to try to get the US back on track again if enough people
are unionized. BUt that is not a silver bullet either.
Some government entities are great, really efficient, some seem nearly like startups.
Some are nearly all deadweight. A majority of the senior older folks working for in one of the state governments, would eat breakfast, read the newspaper, have lunch, and then try to do something for a couple of hours before going home. I was rather shocked.
I was less so when I encountered it in other places.
The government is an enormous group of entities. Some work well, most I think work ok, and some are horrors. (from a taxpayer perspective, not from the people who work there s perspective)
There is a lot of dead weight in the private sector. The worst examples I have encountered are places where nepotism is king. Older companies seem to accrue dead weight over time. Especially with strong unions¹,
But at some point some new CEO or some such makes attempts to clean house, sometimes it works, sometimes it doesn't.
I am a huge supporter of unions and I think they are one of the only ways to try to get the US back on track again if enough people are unionized. BUt that is not a silver bullet either.