"Trump to meet with tech CEOs on government overhaul"

[Gotcha]

http://www.bnn.ca/trump-to-meet-with-tech-ceos-on-government-overhaul-1.782723

"President Donald Trump will meet with the chief executives of technology companies including Apple Inc and Amazon.com Inc on Monday as the White House looks to the private sector for help in cutting government waste and improving services."

Who doesn't see this as a huge problem? If we ask Apple how to improve things, they will say import cheap labor, make them work over 12 hours per day with forced overtime. If we ask Amazon, they will of course suggest to get rid of all employees as the technology improves.

In my opinion, the government and tech companies are really at odds with each other. You could very well run a government on a slim budget, but then the mandate of the government would I'm sure change, there would be no services, there would be no roads, there would be nothing to live for.

At the same time, perhaps the business world could teach the government that you can't run deficits forever. Eventually, you need real money coming in, and it has to be more than the real money going out.

It seems to me like the worst of capitalism will be adopted, and the best of socialism will be scraped. Either way, I'm not sure if multi-billion dollar companies are the best for giving advice to the government on how to run things.

 

[ElCubano]

I'd much rather he talk to them than the BANKS for advice. lol

 

[ironchef]

Robo-Government? Wait, what about Robo-President?

 

[Simples]

http://www.bnn.ca/trump-to-meet-with-tech-ceos-on-government-overhaul-1.782723

"President Donald Trump will meet with the chief executives of technology companies including Apple Inc and Amazon.com Inc on Monday as the White House looks to the private sector for help in cutting government waste and improving services."

Who doesn't see this as a huge problem? If we ask Apple how to improve things, they will say import cheap labor, make them work over 12 hours per day with forced overtime. If we ask Amazon, they will of course suggest to get rid of all employees as the technology improves.

In my opinion, the government and tech companies are really at odds with each other. You could very well run a government on a slim budget, but then the mandate of the government would I'm sure change, there would be no services, there would be no roads, there would be nothing to live for.

At the same time, perhaps the business world could teach the government that you can't run deficits forever. Eventually, you need real money coming in, and it has to be more than the real money going out.

It seems to me like the worst of capitalism will be adopted, and the best of socialism will be scraped. Either way, I'm not sure if multi-billion dollar companies are the best for giving advice to the government on how to run things.

There's infinite amount of money available, but the world and its resources are finite. So capitalism is just wrong on a global scale.

 

[Cuddles]

In theory, it's a good strategy. I mean, they head extremely successful companies and no doubt know a thing or two about saving a buck. In practice though, how do you keep them from doing it w/o trying to use the opportunity to serve their self interests?

This is why you surround yourself and nominate competent people from the get go.

 

[java]

In theory, it's a good strategy. I mean, they head extremely successful companies and no doubt know a thing or two about saving a buck.

This is why you surround yourself and nominate competent people from the get go.

How do you know the competent people you surround yourself with are not using the opportunity to serve their self interests?

 

[Sig]

How do you know the competent people you surround yourself with are not using the opportunity to serve their self interests?

Even if they don't the difference between government's role and the private sector's role is so vast that their advice is really next to useless. If there is something that private industry can do better than government then it really should be outsourced, and per circular A-76 it has been for years. That leaves government mostly doing what A-76 would call "inherently government" operations. That includes things like rule-making to turn legislation into regulation, enforcing existing regulation, and overseeing all the contractors doing non-inherently government operations, as well as some things like national defense and law enforcement that are inherently governmental. None of those things happen in the private sector, so why in the world would you expect the private sector to be useful in providing advice for how to do them more efficiently?
I went to a top MBA program as a military member with the idea that I could go back to the military and implement best practices from the private sector. Turns out that's virtually impossible. Not only does the private sector not have any experience in inherently governmental operations, they also aren't subject to the thousands of rules congress passed to tie the hands of the civil service. Generally these fall under the assumption that most government employees are lazy, inefficient, and dishonest and therefore need to operate under a byzantine complex of thousands of rules that make it virtually impossible for them to do their job, let alone attract quality employees to work in government. Trump and his minions understand none of this, and like all their simplistic approaches to complex problems this one will fall flat on it's face.

 

[Cuddles]

How do you know the competent people you surround yourself with are not using the opportunity to serve their self interests?

Not seeking someone with a conflict of interest, say, being the CEO of a for-profit would be a start.

 

[Humpy]

Business is basically anti environment. They would sell off the national parks and other sites in their obsession with MONEY. What the poor noobs don't realize is that the climate and enviroment are really important and should be protected.

 

[Simples]

Business is basically anti environment. They would sell off the national parks and other sites in their obsession with MONEY. What the poor noobs don't realize is that the climate and enviroment are really important and should be protected.