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Indeed. If you were to truly run the government like you'd run a business, wouldn't you "fire" all the older people who are no longer performing at an acceptabl
by psj 10y ago
Indeed. If you were to truly run the government like you'd run a business, wouldn't you "fire" all the older people who are no longer performing at an acceptable level i.e. retired?
- VLM 10y agoFrom a .gov perspective performance and production is measured not by working, but by voting, and voting rates are excellent for older people.
- psj 10y agoThat's one more way a government isn't a business. Also, didn't Trump campaign on generally minimizing government? Did (does) he also run his businesses in such as way so as to "minimize" them? Obviously there are approaches that make sense to be common to running both business and government (that probably apply to most everything else as well because they'd seem like "common sense") but, at a high level, to say "run government like a business" is one of those things that only sounds reasonable (possibly) until you think about it.
- InitialLastName 10y agoDisagree. In this stretched analogy, performance might be measured by voting, but production is measured by tax paying (i.e. contribution to the revenue stream).