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Then the question is, “how do we prevent politicians from hiring their family and friends on excessive salaries”? Then it’s, “how do we quantify success withou

Then the question is, “how do we prevent politicians from hiring their family and friends on excessive salaries”? Then it’s, “how do we quantify success without the profit motive for something society needs, but doesn’t earn a profit”? Then I would conclude, the solution is a small government with a hyper-competitive process for providing public services, with actual democratic feedback on the success of such provided services with teeth to remove bad private sector contractors.

fn-mote 1y ago
> with actual democratic feedback on the success of such provided services The Chicago political machine is calling. They want your jobs. All of your jobs. Wait until you’re doing a great job but have the wrong political take on a situation. Make sure you’re regularly doing favors for people and giving out what freebies you can so you stay in office during the next cycle. It sounded great in the post, but democracy is hard so don’t expect an easy answer.
duxup 1y ago
Is that the concern? Hiring family? But they don’t because of the salary limit? I don’t think that’s the case.