New York City Mayor Mamdani is revolutionizing government efficiency by cutting wasteful contracts with companies like McKinsey, saving millions without compromising essential services. Will this progressive approach inspire a national movement against inefficient outsourcing?
This whole thing of ridding the civil service of expertise and leaning on external consultants instead was done under the guise of cutting costs, but in practice they’re more expensive and do a worse job. Not only because they’re incentivised to do the least amount of work possible for the most amount of pay possible, but also because quite often they’re little more than the government’s sock puppets. They get paid to tell the government what it wants to hear, and then the government can say (and technically meet some legal requirements) that they’re listening to the experts.
This is not unique to NYC or the US, but it’s good that someone in the public eye is trying to do something about it. May it inspire others.
This whole thing of ridding the civil service of expertise and leaning on external consultants instead was done under the guise of cutting costs, but in practice they’re more expensive and do a worse job. Not only because they’re incentivised to do the least amount of work possible for the most amount of pay possible, but also because quite often they’re little more than the government’s sock puppets. They get paid to tell the government what it wants to hear, and then the government can say (and technically meet some legal requirements) that they’re listening to the experts.
This is not unique to NYC or the US, but it’s good that someone in the public eye is trying to do something about it. May it inspire others.