Remember this folks when voting for people who advocate for privatizing or de-regulating industries.
Corporate bureaucracies can absolutely be just as terrible. But the problem isn't that a bureaucracy exists, it's that there is a law requiring the approval of a specific bureaucracy.
If a corporate bureaucracy is slow and inefficient, that sucks, but it creates an opportunity for somebody else to be less slow and less inefficient. If a government bureaucracy is slow and inefficient, can you start your own and go into competition with them?
- Google: 100,000
- Procter and Gamble: 100,000
- GlaxoSmithKline: 100,000
(Weird how the figures for the first three random companies I looked up are so close...)
- Health and Human Services: 80,000
- Uber: 20,000
- FDA: 15,000
- Sanofi Pasteur (working on coronavirus vaccine): 15,000
- CDC: 10,000