almost as if the contractors became their customers
Capture of government decisionmaking by suppliers (including external suppliers and government employees via their unions) is not so much a bug as it is a feature. (In the sense that it is not an undesirable accidental property of the system, it was the predictable desired results of actions taken by someone(s) with decisionmaking authority, not in the sense that it is socially desirable.)
Capture of government decisionmaking by suppliers (including external suppliers and government employees via their unions) is not so much a bug as it is a feature. (In the sense that it is not an undesirable accidental property of the system, it was the predictable desired results of actions taken by someone(s) with decisionmaking authority, not in the sense that it is socially desirable.)