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Government jobs?
People dont get fired from those anyway.
You have a monopoly service and monopoly workforce. This is recipe for disaster.
At least a monopoly workforce in the private sector can bleed a company dry and force it out of business.
The government? Well they raise taxes + increase debt... Or the service just sucks.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spoils_system
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tammany_Hall
Government jobs?
People dont get fired from those anyway.
You have a monopoly service and monopoly workforce. This is recipe for disaster.
At least a monopoly workforce in the private sector can bleed a company dry and force it out of business.
The government? Well they raise taxes + increase debt... Or the service just sucks.