Over and over, government corruption is extremely valuable.
I see my "Defense" counterparts are significantly worse programmers and claim to work less/never, but get paid 20k more per year than me.
These people don't create value, they destroy value.
They don't contribute to our roads/schools/local services that are actually useful.
As much as everyone is afraid of Google and Amazon, I don't see them getting bigger. They have hit a beaurcratic celling that will cause them to act too slow or too expensive.
The only reason government keeps growing is because they are not affected by profit.
Just raise taxes.