This is the incentive structure for GOVERNMENT AND GOVERNMENT-FED ORGANIZATIONS GENERALLY: If you SOLVE THE PROBLEM you are funded for, your money disappears. If you KEEP THE PROBLEM GOING, you get to keep your funding.
Government and government-fed incentives are upside down; the OPPOSITE of those in the Free Market.
It works the same way in the private industry, if anything government funding is less likely to disappear for a solved problem because theres no incentive to stop paying/
I can't argue with that, newdaynewname4 -- we still pay taxes allegedly for expanding access to electricity and phone service, despite those issues being solved long ago. Once government program starts, it tends to go on forever.
But I will say that when the problem visibly persists, that tends to INCREASE the money being given to the gov't and private groups "working on the problem", as with cancer, homelessness, "poverty", and so on.
This is the incentive structure for GOVERNMENT AND GOVERNMENT-FED ORGANIZATIONS GENERALLY: If you SOLVE THE PROBLEM you are funded for, your money disappears. If you KEEP THE PROBLEM GOING, you get to keep your funding.
Government and government-fed incentives are upside down; the OPPOSITE of those in the Free Market.
It works the same way in the private industry, if anything government funding is less likely to disappear for a solved problem because theres no incentive to stop paying/
I can't argue with that, newdaynewname4 -- we still pay taxes allegedly for expanding access to electricity and phone service, despite those issues being solved long ago. Once government program starts, it tends to go on forever.
But I will say that when the problem visibly persists, that tends to INCREASE the money being given to the gov't and private groups "working on the problem", as with cancer, homelessness, "poverty", and so on.