Government bureaucracy, since the long-ago reform of the civil service, is generally pretty well run by honest public servants while private industry has a generous complement of criminals, cheaters, liars and incompetents. Scandal is common, fraud is notorious. Criminal behavior is not uncommon. It's business that rides the backs of our children whose minds we are so foolish as to turn over to them forty hours a week. While comparing government performance to that of private industry let us not neglect the question of human rights.
Industry can discharge any worker, any time for any reason or for no reason.
If workers insist on the right to free speech, for instance, in seeking to unionize the work force, they will almost certainly be fired the instant management finds out. And it is not at all unlikely that the courts will support management. A corporation is free to move with little thought for its disruption of the local community and the suffering of its employees. Short term money profit is the only consideration management feels obliged to recognize. There is nothing compelling about the ethics of business behavior.