There's less than zero incentive to prevent any of this because both agencies can use the make-work to justify their budgets and the vendors make out like bandits.
And we all pay for it.
There's less than zero incentive to prevent any of this because both agencies can use the make-work to justify their budgets and the vendors make out like bandits.
And we all pay for it.
With bots it seems even more automatic.
Whole system could be just billed on "usage".
They'll never go for it because the plausibility of their "we're doing something" pretext is what justifies the entire racket. Paying them to go away wouldn't accomplish that goal.