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Not quite: all of them represent a theft from the public good for the benefit of the few.
by jjs 18y ago
Not quite: all of them represent a theft from the public good for the benefit of the few.
- jibiki 18y agoHis point is that special interest groups cause inequality, but his last example is government workers. How are government workers unequal? Do postmen think they're superior to those lowly I-bankers? Do school principals look down on lawyers? It's ridiculous. The US does not have a civil service caste; the US bureaucracy does not create inequality, unless we redefine inequality to be something totally different than the normal usage. I'm not just nitpicking: this kind of sloppy thinking absolutely kills this essay.
- randallsquared 18y agoA job in which the worker is nearly immune to job loss is quite valuable in and of itself.
- jjs 18y agoYour earlier post said, "Effective lobbying turns welfare or health care programs into cash cows for government workers or health care providers." I took that to mean that false inefficiencies were being created to divert public money into private hands.