Comment by mschuster91
3 years ago
> All form of governments, no matter how small, tend to grow into huge socialist monsters (the usa is the largest employer in the world, second only to China, maybe).
The USA have 330 million citizens and 10 million people without valid residency, in total something around 340 million citizens. The public sector clocks in at 15%, which includes the military and USPS. That is, seriously, not much.
[1] https://www.brookings.edu/policy2020/votervital/public-servi...
U.S. total public spending is around 40% of the GDP. [1]
[1] https://www.imf.org/external/datamapper/exp@FPP/USA/FRA/JPN/...
So what? It's not like that money is lost. It ends all back in the economy because people spend their wages.
Money is just paper. The _value_ is lost; if the government buys itself a banana, that's one less banana available to the people.
It's sort of like how when developers learn how much they cost the company per hour and they get mad about how they don't get to take more of that home.
Well, say you work at a company with 100 developers. That's who's making the stuff. Everybody else is there to make sure the stuff gets made. There's a manager for every 6-8 developers (13-17), and there's a couple managers for those managers. Add in HR and you're already up to about a 25% overhead and we haven't talked about equipment and buildings and customer management and advertising and litigation and taxes and so on and so forth.