I’ve worked in the public sector, private sector, and non-profit sector.
From what I can tell, the level of incompetence is about the same in all areas.
I suppose that the private sector has a truer sense of the value of its employees, but everytime I witnessed a cost-cotting purge take place, it was typically the best employees who went because they were the highest-paid.
And from what I can tell, the hardest actual workers tend to be in the non-profit side because you usually don’t work for that poor of pay unless you are really dedicated to what you are doing.
Worked for a “non-profit” for ten years. Lots of dead weight in the adminstrative sections. Lots of people just putting in time to retire. Some worked very hard lots didn’t. It all depended in what part of the process you worked in. So far private industry for profit work the hardest in my experiance over-all.