points by iAMkenough 2 days ago | 0 comments
Notably, all three of those providers have an incentive to increase costs for taxpayers in order to serve their investors. And all of those providers have federal politicians invested in their stock price.
[–] sailfast 1 day ago
[–] tancop 14 hours ago
> Turns out anyone with a 401K is also invested.
The problem with that thinking is not everyone is invested equally or in proportion to how much they pay in taxes. It's a transfer to people who can afford to invest more of their income, paid by everyone else.
But we’re also taxpayers. So maybe there’s an equilibrium.
Also ideally some competition between those providers that will keep prices in line. (Spoiler: it absolutely does)
GSA also requires that the government is the lowest cost customer so nobody on earth is allowed any better deal. This also applies pressure. You have to rely on incentives in the end.
If you assume nobody has any integrity and incentives are all fake and nobody will hold to their agreements then there isn’t really a “public” good anymore anyway so what’s the point in trying to make a public cloud? It would just lead to grift at larger scale that wouldn’t even benefit our stock portfolios.