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The point of outsourcing is because people don’t want to be held accountable.

Stopping outsourcing doesn’t change the fundamental problem of accountability, people just find different ways to avoid it.




>The point of outsourcing is because people don’t want to be held accountable.

Having worked on the public sector (Air Force), there's enormous pressure on groups like NASA to outsource because voters perceive government work as wasteful and expensive, and contracted work as efficient because free market.


> there's enormous pressure on groups like NASA to outsource because voters perceive government work as wasteful and expensive, and contracted work as efficient because free market.

And, those contracts end up being the most wasteful and expensive of all.




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