Same thing happens in western governments.
Talking about a problem is often more profitable then solving it so some one with resources outside of the system with a desire to actually you know fix the problem often outcompetes governments with no desire to do so.
The difference, I think, is that in the West the apathetic people who run those governments are generally not so narcissistic as to think that people who came in from outside and solved problems the government was ignoring, were doing so just to make the government look bad.