> it's easy [...] lambasting teachers, for example, for their spending on computer software And maybe it's a good thing. > do you like being micro managed at

> it's easy [...] lambasting teachers, for example, for their spending on computer software And maybe it's a good thing. > do you like being micro managed at your job? You are conflating micromanagement with financial control. In democratic societies, public work is done under public scrutiny. Taxpayers have constitutional rights to review budgets and complain to elected politicians. Private citizens and companies have privacy, instead, as the "public" and "private" word suggest. In dictatorships it's the other way around.