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>Contrast this with actual public service. See my other comment. If "public service" involves taking a job with mediocre pay, poor job security, and being barr
by gruez 1y ago
>Contrast this with actual public service.
See my other comment. If "public service" involves taking a job with mediocre pay, poor job security, and being barred from the field for 5 years, you'll only end up with rich partisan hacks and ideologues taking the post. All the competent people would be working at companies.
- svnt 1y agoThis presumes a reality where money and power are the only selection criteria. The idea of service is absent, and it is absent by design. “We live in capitalism, and its power seems inescapable. So did the divine right of kings.”