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Typically this is something I hear more commonly within businesses.

Unsurprisingly the business thinks business is the most efficient way to run anything.

If private companies were more efficient than the public sector then you'd want to privatize the armed forces. The fact that no serious person argues for this tells you all you need to know.

I mean, I'm not arguing for private companies, but our government is quite spectacularly inefficient at anything except generating prime ministers! Mind you, they may be trying to be worse than the private sector so they cna claim the private sector is more efficient than the government, I guess...

Private companies are master at screwing customers for profit. Lefts not try to be private companies.

It sort of depends on what the company is doing.

I work for my local government and everybody means well but are hampered by a lack of funding. I complete a statutory required role, that is one of the two key performance indicators and it needs 2 people full time and I'm the only person on it.

I think a good example of the tradeoffs between government and private companies would be lunar landing programs. If you throw cold war nuclear money at the problem, you can do things fast and ambitiously like Apollo. But nowadays for Artemis, the urgency is a lot less, so there's all sorts of games with Congress (putting things all over the place that don't make sense, lunar gateway etc) to make sure they keep funding. That results in a much more expensive much less capable rocket (SLS) than something like starship that has a whole lot less political constraints like starship. NASA can and has gotten things done well, but the funding and incentive structure makes it harder.