I actually worked for government for about 10 years.
Consultants were hired because they were friends of administration or else they were going to give administration the answer they wanted with the veil of third party objectivity. So if something was going to be "controversial" then they hire their friend at an extremely high sum of money to "consult" the politicians the best way forward. If the administration liked the consultant's solution, they adopted the findings and acted upon them. If administration did not like the consultant's advice, they dismiss the findings and end the contract with the consultant. It's usually a win-win situation. Cronies get money and administration gets to move forward without controversy and pretend the third party consultant came up with the idea.
It's never about hiring the most qualified people who are real problem solvers. And rarely are they actually objective.
Who is Scott Adams? The cartoonist? Tell him to stick to cartoons.
I think that politicians or a body of government acting upon the findings of a "consultant study" also helps remove some of the legal liability if something goes wrong.
Now government will tell you something else. They will say that they hire consultants because they have an expertise in a specialized area or subject of study that the government cannot afford to hire someone full-time to study themselves.
For example, government might hire a consultant to develop plans for an extremely busy intersection. The morons at government are too stupid to plug in mathematical models and statistics and model traffic through a busy intersection so that traffic flows most efficiently. How long does the light stay green one direction versus another direction? How should traffic light patterns change throughout different times of day? What is the best way to merge on-coming traffic or to reduce lane changes or such. Government tards are way too stupid to perform analysis and engineering of this sort. They hire a consulting firm that specializes in this sort of thing.
Also, government often collects lots of data but is too stupid to figure out how to utilize the data to maximize production or efficiency or make intelligent decisions. So often they hire a consultant to study their own data.
This is from my experience, at least.
Also, often hign ranking people within the government bureaucracy (bureaucrats, not politicians) would leave their government job to do consulting full-time and made lots of money doing it. By then they had enough friends in government that they could get consulting contracts in a "I will scratch your back if you scratch mine" relationship.
That moron never knows what he's talking about.
I actually worked for government for about 10 years.
Consultants were hired because they were friends of administration or else they were going to give administration the answer they wanted with the veil of third party objectivity. So if something was going to be "controversial" then they hire their friend at an extremely high sum of money to "consult" the politicians the best way forward. If the administration liked the consultant's solution, they adopted the findings and acted upon them. If administration did not like the consultant's advice, they dismiss the findings and end the contract with the consultant. It's usually a win-win situation. Cronies get money and administration gets to move forward without controversy and pretend the third party consultant came up with the idea.
It's never about hiring the most qualified people who are real problem solvers. And rarely are they actually objective.
Who is Scott Adams? The cartoonist? Tell him to stick to cartoons.
I think that politicians or a body of government acting upon the findings of a "consultant study" also helps remove some of the legal liability if something goes wrong.
Now government will tell you something else. They will say that they hire consultants because they have an expertise in a specialized area or subject of study that the government cannot afford to hire someone full-time to study themselves.
For example, government might hire a consultant to develop plans for an extremely busy intersection. The morons at government are too stupid to plug in mathematical models and statistics and model traffic through a busy intersection so that traffic flows most efficiently. How long does the light stay green one direction versus another direction? How should traffic light patterns change throughout different times of day? What is the best way to merge on-coming traffic or to reduce lane changes or such. Government tards are way too stupid to perform analysis and engineering of this sort. They hire a consulting firm that specializes in this sort of thing.
Also, government often collects lots of data but is too stupid to figure out how to utilize the data to maximize production or efficiency or make intelligent decisions. So often they hire a consultant to study their own data.
This is from my experience, at least.
Also, often hign ranking people within the government bureaucracy (bureaucrats, not politicians) would leave their government job to do consulting full-time and made lots of money doing it. By then they had enough friends in government that they could get consulting contracts in a "I will scratch your back if you scratch mine" relationship.
I agree. This creepy booty boy is a pseudo-intellectual fraud.
If he weren't a weirdo faggot, he'd be processing forms while pigeon holed in a middle management local government office cubicle for 30 years.