[code4life]

> Most of those scenarios, however, would never happen, because human organizations are nowhere near that efficient.

Actually, taxes are taken to pay for this, right? By simply not taking the taxes, people could be free to make better decisions with that money.

[TeMPOraL]

We create organizations because even for their bloat, they make things more efficient than having individuals doing their individual, uncoordinated things. So no. Also, Japan railways were in fact privatized and so the heroes of this story are actually people working for private companies. I'm not sure if tax money is even used here, and if so, then probably not much of it.