[abc123abc123]

Easy. Intertia and incompetence. Government is full of paper pushers who hav eno higher wish but to live comfortably on tax payers money until they retire. The key to survival is to do what everyone else is doing, and not to be the first to try anything new.

The good thing is, as soon as someone tries anything new, and it looks like it is a success, the paper pushers will join in as soon as they think it is safe, and try to steal the fame and glory.

This is just how the government and the public sector works.

[CoastalCoder]

> This is just how the government and the public sector works.

I work in the public sector, and that isn't remotely my experience.

Could you roughly quantify what faction of public sector workers you believe operate that way, and how you arrived at that belief?

[kachnuv_ocasek]

This is not in any way specific to the government or public institution. Many (perhaps most) private companies work the same way.

[q3k]

Yeah, anyone who says 'the government should be ran like a company' has likely never worked in a large corporation. It's full of meaningless work, bullshit jobs and red tape.

[olav]

Plus, fulfillment of wishes to users as opposed to IT architecture management. Users have been brainwashed to demand certain brands. When you combine this with an IT Management that lacks mid-term risk management or a vision, you get happy users and an IT landscape easily taken hostage by single vendors.

[Frieren]

> Government is full of paper pushers who hav eno higher wish but to live comfortably on tax payers money until they retire.

Even billionaires are into getting as much tax payer money as possible. But they get the big numbers.

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