Comment by idiotsecant
1 month ago
It's exhausting the number of conversations online that assume that everything in the government is nefarious, inefficient, and focused on steeling ur freedums. I have worked in private industry, I've worked in government, and I've worked in the murky world in between. By and large government employees and thoughtful, genuinely want to make things work, and are faithful stewards of the public good. They usually make less money than they could get in private industry, the job security is absolutely no longer there, and the benefits are getting worse and worse each year.
They're just people doing their best. Try to be a little less breathless with your rhetoric.
I tend to assume government employees are a cross section of the population. I don't care about the people, I care about the system.
If you apply the assumption that government employees are better or more well intentioned than the population in general then it makes the government's actions look even worse.