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> The US needs a renaissance of the importance and virtue of public service. Go check in countries with large public services and let me know what virtues they

by w3mmpp 6y ago

> The US needs a renaissance of the importance and virtue of public service. Go check in countries with large public services and let me know what virtues they display... Spoiler: you're gonna be disappointed.

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inerte 6y ago
Who said anything about big government, or increasing its size? Specially it being more virtuous If anything, I have advocated for a culture where the smartest people want to join the public service and help others instead of becoming a product manager for a button on a corner of a stupid app that doesn’t care at all what anyone of us do there as long as we interact with ads. If you’re going to try to be a smart ass, I also have some spoilers for you, drop the attack mode and get better at text comprehension.
- w3mmpp 6y ago
  I'm gonna reference what you said again: > The US needs a renaissance of the importance and virtue of public service. "importance and virtue of public service". Unless you consider there is such a thing as public service without government, and that your "virtue" here, used along "renaissance" and "importance" doesn't suggest it needs to be more virtuous, I'd argue it's you who needs to be better at explanation. Now, on a more important note, if your vision of the private sector is reduced to people working on online ads, I suggest you look beyond the software industry and consider smart people working in very important industries, in research, energy, medicine, finance, millions of people making our lives possible in ways than no public servant will ever be able to even just dream about. So if anything imo, we don't need more public servants, aren't there enough people telling us how to live our lives? If renaissance we need, is on the importance and virtue of a good day's work as a way to better ourselves and society.

by w3mmpp 6y ago

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inerte 6y ago

Who said anything about big government, or increasing its size? Specially it being more virtuous If anything, I have advocated for a culture where the smartest people want to join the public service and help others instead of becoming a product manager for a button on a corner of a stupid app that doesn’t care at all what anyone of us do there as long as we interact with ads. If you’re going to try to be a smart ass, I also have some spoilers for you, drop the attack mode and get better at text comprehension.

w3mmpp 6y ago
I'm gonna reference what you said again: > The US needs a renaissance of the importance and virtue of public service. "importance and virtue of public service". Unless you consider there is such a thing as public service without government, and that your "virtue" here, used along "renaissance" and "importance" doesn't suggest it needs to be more virtuous, I'd argue it's you who needs to be better at explanation. Now, on a more important note, if your vision of the private sector is reduced to people working on online ads, I suggest you look beyond the software industry and consider smart people working in very important industries, in research, energy, medicine, finance, millions of people making our lives possible in ways than no public servant will ever be able to even just dream about. So if anything imo, we don't need more public servants, aren't there enough people telling us how to live our lives? If renaissance we need, is on the importance and virtue of a good day's work as a way to better ourselves and society.