{"id":548,"date":"2025-04-25T14:35:00","date_gmt":"2025-04-25T14:35:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/poderemercado.com.br\/?p=548"},"modified":"2025-04-24T20:55:45","modified_gmt":"2025-04-24T20:55:45","slug":"quando-o-estado-e-o-cliente-de-si-mesmo","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/poderemercado.com.br\/en\/quando-o-estado-e-o-cliente-de-si-mesmo\/","title":{"rendered":"When the State is Its Own Client"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>In the real economy, the customer is the one who pays and demands value. In the public sector, the customer is the one who signs the agreement \u2014 with other people&#039;s money.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>In any company, survival depends on pleasing the customer. It is the customer who decides whether the service is worth the price, whether the product is useful, whether the service is convincing. In the State, everything works the other way around: <strong>public structures sell services to each other \u2014 using public resources \u2014 and call this an institutional partnership.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Universities hiring foundations that are run by their own former professors. City governments outsourcing to NGOs run by former secretaries. Ministries signing \u201cagreements\u201d with state-owned companies that are already operating in the red. That\u2019s what we call it. <strong>closed power circuit<\/strong>, where control is formal and the result rarely matters.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><strong>Money circulates, but does not leave the system<\/strong><\/h3>\n\n\n\n<p>These operations are legally permitted and technically impeccable \u2014 full of opinions, rubrics and terms of reference. But their practical effect is different: they create a <strong>market illusion within the state machine<\/strong>, where everyone wins\u2026 except the citizen.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>It is as if the State operated an internal economy, with contracts between its parties \u2014 <strong>but paid by those outside it.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>This \u201cparallel state economy\u201d means that:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>Resources leave the Treasury, pass through public entities and return to other state structures, without real competition<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>The same bureaucratic elite acts on different sides of the agreements<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>And contracts are not the least bit concerned with cost-benefit, because the risk is always collective \u2014 and the profit is always concentrated.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator has-alpha-channel-opacity\"\/>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><strong>When there is no real customer, there is no demand for results.<\/strong><\/h3>\n\n\n\n<p>This logic does not hold up in the private sector because there the client can leave. In the public sector, <strong>the customer is captive \u2014 or rather, non-existent<\/strong>. And meanwhile, the rhetoric of \u201cefficient management\u201d covers up the lack of transparency with reports and acronyms.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator has-alpha-channel-opacity\"\/>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>The State that hires the State itself is not being accountable \u2014 it is just keeping its ecosystem alive.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>O Estado brasileiro criou uma economia interna, onde contrata seus pr\u00f3prios servi\u00e7os por meio de conv\u00eanios, funda\u00e7\u00f5es e estatais \u2014 sempre com dinheiro p\u00fablico. Neste post, desmontamos o ciclo vicioso onde n\u00e3o h\u00e1 cliente real, cobran\u00e7a por resultado ou risco envolvido. S\u00f3 poder travestido de contrato.<\/p>","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":550,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"googlesitekit_rrm_CAow55rbCw:productID":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[328,418,416,415,322,417,354,420,419],"class_list":["post-548","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-analise-economica","tag-burocracia","tag-clientelismo","tag-contratos-entre-entes-publicos","tag-convenios-estatais","tag-economia-estatal","tag-fundacoes-publicas","tag-gastos-publicos","tag-ineficiencia-institucional","tag-parcerias-sem-concorrencia"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/poderemercado.com.br\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/548","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/poderemercado.com.br\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/poderemercado.com.br\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/poderemercado.com.br\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/poderemercado.com.br\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=548"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/poderemercado.com.br\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/548\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/poderemercado.com.br\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/550"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/poderemercado.com.br\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=548"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/poderemercado.com.br\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=548"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/poderemercado.com.br\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=548"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}