(In)Efficiencies

A Few Feral Thoughts

I’ve worked for several corporations. Some a single-owner business, others family size, a few national, and two or three worldwide.

These businesses could be efficient. And they could also be poorly organized.

I've noticed the same to be true at all levels.

It’s often said that business is efficient and government is inefficient. People generally stand on one side or the other of this assumption, and it can dictate how they think and vote.

But it turns out that governments can be either efficient or inefficient, including Democracies. After WWII, where we’d lost a fair number of our boys and the ones who came back had been accustomed to military life, our government was incredibly efficient for a decade or two.

Of course, that got us into a Military-Industrial Complex.

(The Nazis were very efficient. It seems the Fascists were, too. The Communists? I guess it depends.)

I guess what burns people when the government is inefficient is that it's “on their dime.”

I think that's also what makes profiteering particularly troubling in the governmental arena.

This is the topic of Matt Lewis' forthcoming book. We'll be interviewing him soon.

Not much of a post today, I'm in the process of moving. What's on my mind of late is primarily theological, though I need more time to craft that. Stay tuned.

With Much Affection,

Aaron