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>Let me recommend you read Michael Lewis’s book The Fifth Risk, or at least listen to one of these interviews about it: I'm not sure I need to read a biased po
by asdf21 7y ago
>Let me recommend you read Michael Lewis’s book The Fifth Risk, or at least listen to one of these interviews about it:
I'm not sure I need to read a biased polemic about how big government is good and the Trump admin is bad.
>The US civil service is full of highly competent experts without whom we would all be exposed to grave risks every day.
I've worked for government agencies, and this is certainly not how I would describe the workers there. I'd say this: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21805768 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21805768 would more closely represent my typical experience with civil servants.. rampant incompetence.
- porknubbins 7y agoIsn’t is possible that government bureaucracy is simultaneously both big, wasteful, and sometimes incompetent as well as necessary and staffed by a core of skilled, hardworking people? I’ve applied for govt contractor jobs and the emphasis placed on checking every box while blindly ignoring any other indicia of aptitude for the job (ie can you prove you have 4 years experience with Microsoft Office?) is infuriating. But its basically a big company- you get good employees with the bad, just harder to fire the bad ones.