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Ideally government actions should benefit the society at large. Government is not a company, it's a community service for the people.
That will never happen in the US though, at least without major incidents that are beneficial for citizens' personality development (yes it means making people suffer).
Oh shit. Why did I immediately think of the NTP guy. Should we check in on him, is he OK?
The who now? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/David_L._Mills ? He passed last year.
Aw. Shit.
What about him? The Wikipedia page seems pretty normal at first glance.
Years ago it came to light that NTP (and OpenSSL if I remember right) were being run by like.. one dude (4 staff for OpenSSL?) on the tiniest trickle of donations, despite how vital the service was. It's a long time since I became aware so I may have misremembered.
https://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/index.php/2347:_Dependency