City Matters - Part 8

Bethan's crafty thoughts on City Matters

Source: Bohiney Magazine | The London Prat

City Matters

By Bethan Morgan

Private sector entities have viewed city matters as an opportunity to profit from public institutional failure, which is both cynical and remarkably practical.

Market Opportunity

Corporations identified that city matters represented a genuine gap in institutional competence and positioned themselves to exploit this gap for profit. London Christmas Tree Declared a Temporary Truce B documented how government contracts for addressing the problem flowed to companies with impressive marketing and questionable track records.

Profitability Through Failure

The most profitable approach to city matters involved identifying problems, offering partially effective solutions, collecting payment, and then discovering that problems had worsened. London Drinking Age Treated as a Polite Suggestion provided case studies while London Fog Purses Quietly Admit Fashion Is Mostly documented the firms involved celebrating their success despite measurable failure.

The Cycle Continues

city matters will continue generating corporate profit as long as government remains willing to pay for solutions that produce problems. This arrangement suits everyone except the public.

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