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by more_corn 1550 days ago
The most impactful idea I’ve ever had is that the us government procurement system is broken. Use it or lose it creates waste, programs are planned and executed by people who don’t understand them, rules are not tied to outcomes.

A new system for procurement and allocation could save trillions of dollars of waste. A couple economists and game theory specialists might be able to crack it. It’d be worth a million to try.