at a very basic level the bargain of working for the government was “we will not pay you as much as the private sector but you will have job security and a stable career with good retirement benefits”
that is clearly no longer something we can promise so the price just went up
that is clearly no longer something we can promise so the price just went up
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Im temperamentally an optimist but I worry that luring federal employees back is gonna be harder and costlier than people think, in the same way that Biden couldn’t just reinstate JCPOA in the same terms with Iran after Trump burned it up.
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(as long as we're dreaming about a post-trump future)
Thank you to everyone building power outside of Ds & Rs.
apart from a handful like Sanders, AOC, and Pritzker, the Dems' strategy seems to be "cede power to the fascists"
any hypothetical blue candidate is not going to be one of the few willing to fight, and they sure as hell won't promise to fix what Trump broke
I mean hell yeah LFG but we gotta go a lot broader than just the big chair.
apart from the aforementioned outliers, our elected officials are divided between people who eagerly support the regime's rape-and-pillage campaign and those who are openly comfortable with allowing it to happen
Like, competitive-ish with private up.
Not secure enough anymore.
If the gov will cancel a program *as* it launches, there is no job security.
Now that one of the parties is run by a coterie of capitalists and Heritage think tankers who want to destroy the administrative state, good luck with that.
I have the pension (for now anyway) but not the healthcare part.
Which isn't really a surprise as people aren't dumb
I am not saying impossible, but ..this is going to be rough as hell.
Do that and make sure loopholes are closed boom.
Easier said than done though
A lot of the drudgery of data processing & basic calls are farmed out to private entities because they have a cheaper labor pool combined with the database engineering to build & customize modern front ends for the Fed’s mainframes.
We lose out on a lot both directions.
Like yes I theoretically want somebody who has intimate knowledge on the energy sector running the EPA - but only if they have it in them to knife their former boss.
only alternative to things getting shittier forever and not getting fixed looks a lot more like Russia 1917
If I'm not willing to sacrifice for it, why am I bothering?
we simply have no defense against President Kefka
But you are correct, at a management level, pay is likely to be less.
As has much of the basic functionality of the government.
My wife worked as a teacher, I worked for a small biz
Her $$ was less than half of mine but my health benefits were unaffordable and bad.
It took 1 public servant and one small biz employee to make a whole family.
No longer possible, we get by on my expensive and terrible insurance.