This very succinctly describes the entire management class here in Sweden... The public sector is run by incompetent people who have to buy consultants to do anything and the private sector is led by the same kind of people to the point where actually competent people avoid going into management. I wonder how long we can keep this up.
No, this is just the definition of state corruption. They could have competent people, if they wanted to.
Procurement ("lagen om offentlig upphandling"), one of the big wins for the right, is also fundamentally broken in that a lot of the public servants involved are fresh graduates that soon gets poached by private corporations and the organisational response is to sign long term contracts with huge corporations that supply many different things and are also allowed to bring in subcontractors for the things they don't. This effectively destroys any possibility of commercial competition.
It's purposefully designed this way by conservatives.
That's the problem, isn't it ? The holy capitalist cow stands no competition.
Historically regimes like this tend to incite a lot of violence, either through criminal organisations as people seek fame and fortune outside the paths controlled and largely captured by the elites, or through militant revolution that might turn into civil war. I consider it highly irresponsible by our large unions and mainstream labour parties to having given way to this situation, they should have 'learned from history' as the tankies of old put it.
Research departments at large corporations with the right contacts can get campaigns designed for them, more or less, which I disagree with but it's not like it fits the picture you give.
The EU also does relatively much of "startup" funding through public credit, which is nice, because bad business ideas are killed fast if they can't beg their way into years and years of burning someone else's money, which we due to the private investment sector also had some of until the 2022 invasion of Ukraine and the rate hike.
Not sure what you mean... It fits perfectly with the picture I’m trying to convey.
By “these” do you mean anything European, or something specific to this structure?