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Re:Don’t Discriminate Against Mutants Like Me by psj on Tuesday March 28, 2017 @10:49AM (#13976994)
Indeed. If you were to truly run the government like you'd run a business, wouldn't you "fire" all the older people who are no longer performing at an acceptable level i.e. retired?
Re:Don’t Discriminate Against Mutants Like Me by VLM on Tuesday March 28, 2017 @10:54AM (#13977054)
From a .gov perspective performance and production is measured not by working, but by voting, and voting rates are excellent for older people.
Re:Don’t Discriminate Against Mutants Like Me by psj on Tuesday March 28, 2017 @11:16AM (#13977283)
That's one more way a government isn't a business. Also, didn't Trump campaign on generally minimizing government? Did (does) he also run his businesses in such as way so as to "minimize" them?

Obviously there are approaches that make sense to be common to running both business and government (that probably apply to most everything else as well because they'd seem like "common sense") but, at a high level, to say "run government like a business" is one of those things that only sounds reasonable (possibly) until you think about it.

Re:Don’t Discriminate Against Mutants Like Me by InitialLastName on Wednesday March 29, 2017 @01:26PM (#13988557)
Disagree. In this stretched analogy, performance might be measured by voting, but production is measured by tax paying (i.e. contribution to the revenue stream).