Back in the deep dark dim recesses of what I humorously call my memory, don’t remember if it was a governmental history class or a law school class, I do remember that the civil service classification was a compromise: in exchange for some employment protections they settled for lower wages than in the private sector and no unionization.…
Back in the deep dark dim recesses of what I humorously call my memory, don’t remember if it was a governmental history class or a law school class, I do remember that the civil service classification was a compromise: in exchange for some employment protections they settled for lower wages than in the private sector and no unionization. Well, we can see how that faired: most of the top income counties in USofA surround DC and gummint unions are the only unions that are really growing.
I shouldn’t, but I do have a bit of a conflict in this: dad went to work for the gummint right after he completed his Ph.D program, starting as a post doc, and kept climbing the GS ladder right to end. The thing that bugs me is I’m not sure he would have had as successful a career doing what he did in the area he was in the private sector - 🤷♀️. What further bugs me is that even when the private sector shrinks the gummint sector continues to grow. The gummint produces nothing (well, essentially nothing), the private sector is the engine but we allow the GS to act as a governor on the PS - as a result when we should be having the greatest growth in the modern era due to the transformative power of current tech we’re practically idling. We have massive transfer of wealth from the productive sector to unproductive lay-abouts, invaders, etc., but also to the government sector. The amount of friction involved in this fiscal flow is so great if it obeyed the laws of physics/thermodynamics we would’a reached self-combustion a decade or more ago.
Back in the deep dark dim recesses of what I humorously call my memory, don’t remember if it was a governmental history class or a law school class, I do remember that the civil service classification was a compromise: in exchange for some employment protections they settled for lower wages than in the private sector and no unionization. Well, we can see how that faired: most of the top income counties in USofA surround DC and gummint unions are the only unions that are really growing.
I shouldn’t, but I do have a bit of a conflict in this: dad went to work for the gummint right after he completed his Ph.D program, starting as a post doc, and kept climbing the GS ladder right to end. The thing that bugs me is I’m not sure he would have had as successful a career doing what he did in the area he was in the private sector - 🤷♀️. What further bugs me is that even when the private sector shrinks the gummint sector continues to grow. The gummint produces nothing (well, essentially nothing), the private sector is the engine but we allow the GS to act as a governor on the PS - as a result when we should be having the greatest growth in the modern era due to the transformative power of current tech we’re practically idling. We have massive transfer of wealth from the productive sector to unproductive lay-abouts, invaders, etc., but also to the government sector. The amount of friction involved in this fiscal flow is so great if it obeyed the laws of physics/thermodynamics we would’a reached self-combustion a decade or more ago.