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Originally Posted by joshgirls
government agencies are not for-profit entities & have responsibility over public safety without a profit motive. Would the public be safer if the govt tried to profit by underpreparing for a hurricane?
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The government is an organization like any other. An organization that has a certain objective (providing service X or service Y, making money by doing Z, helping A or B by doing C...) and has certain resources available. These resources didn't come falling from the sky like
manna, they have a cost. The Laws of economics apply to every organization, regardless of its objectives.
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again, comparing responsibility for public safety with keeping a restaurant chain open is folly.
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The objectives of the organization are not the point here. The point is that there are different ways to run an organization. The flexible approach used by Waffle House allowed for a higher output of services (based on the resources available and taking into account the risks involved) than the city of New York's approach.
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waffle house does not worry about cars driving over bridges with 75 mph wind gusts. does not worry about flooding subway cars. does not worry about people living in flood zones.
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Waffle House is not running an emergency service or a security firm. Like I said, it's not about the objective of the organization, it's about effectively and
efficiently dealing with a problem. One could tell everyone to stay inside for 2 more days after the hurricane passed.. just to be safe. The question is; what are the opportunity costs associated with that decision and are they justified?
The writer referred to 'economic calculation' and how it was not available to Bloomberg. What the writer did was give a possible explanation of why 2 different organizations moved into 2 different directions in regards to their risk management plans. Waffle House went the
flexible way. The City of New York went the
hide-in-the-castle way. The absence of economic incentives (as in a direct responsibility for the costs involved) could explain that.
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Waffle house was not keeping stores open throughout the hurricane & was not putting their employees lives at risk. I would suggest the mayor of NY would get a lot more flack for being unprepared vs a waffle house not having eggs.
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I never said anything about Waffle House not having eggs.
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yes, the city of manhattan has more resources then a waffle chain. Nobody died because the mayor neglected to do his job. He gets an A. Waffle house was able to function when other restaurants could not. They get an A as well.
so the subways opened at 5AM monday instead of noontime sunday. What a fucking failure...
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I sense a certain hostility in your post *insert pic of Sheldon Cooper*
