What’s seen in the US is not the same narrow issue of “there’s widespread corruption and bribery at existing government services”. But it’s an issue in the same broad class of “government services don’t seem to be doing what we want them to, and we have no clear way to fix that”.
Which is why the post-USSR approach of “slash and burn” might be applicable. Sometimes the only real way to shed inefficiency is to destroy an existing system and build it anew.
It’s something free market capitalism often does natively, by the way of competition. A well oiled, well regulated market can only tolerate this much corporate rot. But government services face no such pressure, and many governance tasks aren’t the kind that you can create a free market for.
“Slash and burn” is inherently a perilous approach, because destroying old systems pisses stakeholders off, the old systems might still provide value, building anew is expensive, and there is no guarantee that a new system will be more efficient. Which the post goes into. But if everything else fails?
What’s seen in the US is not the same narrow issue of “there’s widespread corruption and bribery at existing government services”. But it’s an issue in the same broad class of “government services don’t seem to be doing what we want them to, and we have no clear way to fix that”.
Which is why the post-USSR approach of “slash and burn” might be applicable. Sometimes the only real way to shed inefficiency is to destroy an existing system and build it anew.
It’s something free market capitalism often does natively, by the way of competition. A well oiled, well regulated market can only tolerate this much corporate rot. But government services face no such pressure, and many governance tasks aren’t the kind that you can create a free market for.
“Slash and burn” is inherently a perilous approach, because destroying old systems pisses stakeholders off, the old systems might still provide value, building anew is expensive, and there is no guarantee that a new system will be more efficient. Which the post goes into. But if everything else fails?