> Basically the only organization that's motivated to keep costs as low as possible is the government. Unfortunately, this isn't true for the government either

> Basically the only organization that's motivated to keep costs as low as possible is the government. Unfortunately, this isn't true for the government either. Source: personal experience of me and literally dozens of people that I know. I've briefly worked with my country's government, and in that time I personally experienced and got dozens of stories along the lines of "the government spent tens of thousands of dollars of aggregate government employees' time because a single employee booked a hotel that was less than one dollar above the approved rate while traveling". There's a good reason for this, of course: bureaucracies' policies are mostly "scar tissue" from high-profile cases where a bad actor did something they shouldn't have but wasn't specifically against policy, and then a policy was written for that case and stands for the rest of time. And, bureaucracies are risk-averse, especially democratic governments, whose leaders are elected based on optics almost as much as policy. But it doesn't change the facts. Not only are large bureaucracies inefficient, but government bureaucracies specifically are incentivized to optimize for optics and structure rather than improving that inefficiency, and anyone who has actually worked for a large government can tell you that.