[forlorn_mammoth]

> The problem is that the civil service is inefficient and will bloat, because the only pressure on it to not is the individual good practice of leaders.

repeated like a mantra.

As if megacorps somehow don't have inefficiencies. And how do we even measure efficiency?

[bit-anarchist]

You have it backwards. All governments are megacorps and have the same inefficiencies as them, plus the inefficiencies of being able legally stea- tax.

[robertlagrant]

> As if megacorps somehow don't have inefficiencies

No one is saying megacorps don't have inefficiencies.