as someone who has spent an entire career working for small companies just scraping to get by… the inefficiency due to poor incentive structures and lack of accountability of the bloated US Gov is the ultimate insult.
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Make that "the western nations". And make that simply "governments".
the only positive note is at least in western nations we still have some forms of personal freedom and liberty. i can’t imagine how discouraging it would be to be living under the thumb of Xi and the CCP.