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Mandatory service for the government would go a long way to educating the public just want these organizations do and building empathy for the problems they fac

Mandatory service for the government would go a long way to educating the public just want these organizations do and building empathy for the problems they face. There is a significant risk of civil unrest as the competent employees are pushed out and government ceases to be able to function while private companies take advantage of lack of regulation to try and further extract value from captured markets.

xg15 2y ago
I think exactly this has been the deliberate strategy of a part of the US' political class for a long time - "starve the beast" and all. This seems like the final culmination of those plans.
- jjuel 2y ago
  Tell the people the government is inefficient and cannot work as intended. Defund said government so it doesn't work as intended. Privatize the work and profit. A playbook as old as time. Except they are doing it bigger and more brazenly than ever.
DaiPlusPlus 2y ago
> Mandatory service for [...] building empathy I understand your thought-process here, but I'll say it really doesn't work out like that in-practice. E.g. mandatory schooling certainly didn't make me build-up empathy for teachers and institutions, it had quite the opposite effect in my case.
- unethical_ban 2y ago
  I wonder how one can experience public schooling (20 years ago or now) and not have sympathy for the struggles of teachers.
  - DaiPlusPlus 2y ago
    Oh, in retrospect/hindsight, absolutely. But in-person, when you’re on the spectrum, in the 1990s, when the senior staff put their stock in discipline - not understanding - does not build empathy on either side.
    - unethical_ban 2y ago
      Fair. Heh, I remember being a distraction and being put in the back of the class. And when I finished tasks quicker than others, I couldn't be quiet. I was put in the hallway to do base 5 math in 3rd grade.
  - mock-possum 2y ago
    Until you finish highschool teachers and school staff are your jailers not to put too fine a point on it… so that doesn’t exactly foster empathy. Being friends with educators as an adult has made me a lot more sympathetic to school teachers than my own public school experience ever did. College helped too

xg15 2y ago

I think exactly this has been the deliberate strategy of a part of the US' political class for a long time - "starve the beast" and all. This seems like the final culmination of those plans.

jjuel 2y ago
Tell the people the government is inefficient and cannot work as intended. Defund said government so it doesn't work as intended. Privatize the work and profit. A playbook as old as time. Except they are doing it bigger and more brazenly than ever.

DaiPlusPlus 2y ago

> Mandatory service for [...] building empathy I understand your thought-process here, but I'll say it really doesn't work out like that in-practice. E.g. mandatory schooling certainly didn't make me build-up empathy for teachers and institutions, it had quite the opposite effect in my case.

unethical_ban 2y ago
I wonder how one can experience public schooling (20 years ago or now) and not have sympathy for the struggles of teachers.
- DaiPlusPlus 2y ago
  Oh, in retrospect/hindsight, absolutely. But in-person, when you’re on the spectrum, in the 1990s, when the senior staff put their stock in discipline - not understanding - does not build empathy on either side.
  - unethical_ban 2y ago
    Fair. Heh, I remember being a distraction and being put in the back of the class. And when I finished tasks quicker than others, I couldn't be quiet. I was put in the hallway to do base 5 math in 3rd grade.
- mock-possum 2y ago
  Until you finish highschool teachers and school staff are your jailers not to put too fine a point on it… so that doesn’t exactly foster empathy. Being friends with educators as an adult has made me a lot more sympathetic to school teachers than my own public school experience ever did. College helped too