Re:Mark Cuban offers to fund former 18f employees
by ctxcode on Sunday March 02, 2025 @11:38AM
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Private companies are required to do a good job and balance spending to stay alive. Goverment agencies can do the most horrible job for enormous amounts of money and just keep going.
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Re:Mark Cuban offers to fund former 18f employees
by austin-cheney on Sunday March 02, 2025 @06:54PM
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First of all that isn't evidence of anything and explains how we got in this pickle to begin with... people making shit up.
Secondly, private companies don't have to do a good job. They have to turn a profit, which could be exploitative and not necessarily legal.
Third, government agencies have budgets and audits like many public companies but not private companies. If a government agency exceeds its budget it is essential bankrupt.
Finally, if a government agency fails an audit people can be fined, fired, or even prosecuted. Government agencies are always audited, unlike many commercial companies that are only audited according to regulation and/or cause of investigation. Many of the people recently fired by DOGE are auditors that were preventing the very kind of behavior you suggest of government.