How do you know? Perhaps that person built or improved something very important to your life. Even if they stamped papers at the DMV for 40 years, someone neede

How do you know? Perhaps that person built or improved something very important to your life. Even if they stamped papers at the DMV for 40 years, someone needed to do that work if we're to have a functioning society. And don't wave that away saying that worker could now be replaced by a kiosk and AI, or a contractor in India. Someone needed to do that work, manually and in-person in the 80s and 90s when that wasn't an option. If you want to slim down the civil service today, that doesn't erase the work done by those workers in the past. Finally, remember that you don't personally benefit from every tax dollar, but as long as many (or sometimes even a few) do, then that dollar wasn't wasted on those grounds alone.