[nzlug] Idea...

[Steve Withers]

On Sat, Mar 22, 2008 at 9:10 PM, Nick Taylor <nick at tangerineworks.com>
wrote:

>
> 3) People who spend their lives building mini-empires within major
> institutions often measure their importance by the size of their
> budgets. I've known people deliberately piss millions up the wall to
> guarantee next year's budget approval.
>

This is why I have come to laugh at people who claim private business is
always better than government.

Private businesses aren't as transparent or interesting to us when
functionaries within them "p*ss millions up the wall to guarantee next
year's budget."

It only become relevant if the business concerned falls over because of it.

Waste happens everywhere and it is usually because the incentives to not be
wasteful are wrong....or so complex and conflicting the targets ignore them.