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This scandal is a perfect example of how our political discourse is failing. We cannot simply talk about government budgets and taxes in simple binary terms. W
by thr0wawayf00 5y ago
This scandal is a perfect example of how our political discourse is failing. We cannot simply talk about government budgets and taxes in simple binary terms.
We have to accept that the government needs to spend some money in order fulfill basic functions like protecting sensitive data because anybody that does good work in IT demands far higher pay than what you typically earn in the private sector. I see this all the time.
If billionaires and venture-backed firms are the only ones that can reasonably attract and retain technical talent, we will never solve this problem. The IT pay disparity between the public and private sector is staggering and with inflation, who's gonna take a 60-70% pay cut to work in a public IT job?
- netizen-936824 5y agoIt might help if we didn't have the least competent people possible in positions of power
- thr0wawayf00 5y agoOversimplifying the problem to deflect from the underlying issues only serves the interests of those that enable scandals like this in the first place.
- peatmoss 5y agoCouldn't agree more. Having lived overseas really drives home the feeling that fixation on more vs. less is rather crude. In a lot of ways, it feels like the Ron Swanson schtick from Parks and Recreation: if you're anti-government, you strive to get in power so that you can run government badly, thus proving that government is bad and that we should drown it in the bathtub.