Many investors say the whole pay-for-performance model is a mirage because consultants are too willing to make clients happy by making sure they are handsomely compensated — often regardless of performance.
For society as a whole, paying for a handful of detectives at the local level is far more efficient than spending billions inside the Beltway on bloated bureaucracies and large-scale defensive measures that will most likely have little practical effect.
Sure, some folks use it for getting around that whole "paying for stuff" thing – but for most users, its primary use is the distribution of applications that Apple won't allow in their store.
Although the Midwest as a whole pays well for manufacturing work compared with the rest of the country, Illinois workers still make less than the national average wage.
Germany has also previously stated that each country, not Europe as a whole, should pay for the resolution of troubled banks.
And throughout all this change, the NHS retains its fundamental purpose: to provide a clinically effective health service for the whole population, paid for out of taxes, "for rich and poor alike".
A government conspiracy is not easy to pull off well, but this looks more like an administrative error gone badly wrong – with the whole planet paying for whatever mistakes Frobisher and team made back then.
"There is still a powerful sense around — fair or not — of a whole society paying for the errors and irresponsibility of bankers; of messages not getting through; of impatience with a return to 'business as usual' — represented by still soaring bonuses and little visible change in banking practices," he said in an article published in The Financial Times.
Since much research is funded by government agencies, so society as a whole has paid for this research, OA proponents argue that the results of this publicly-funded research should be universally available at no additional cost [12].
Sure, those Visa commercials make fun of the guy who holds up the whole line paying for his popcorn with cash, but business owners like to "play the float" using checks.
