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80 sats \ 4 replies \ @kepford OP 4 Feb \ parent \ on: Trump Suspends Dozens In Department of Ed As DOGE Devises Plan To Dismantle It news
Indeed this is different from anything I've ever seen before. I can't help but wonder though. Even if Trump does all this stuff another president can come in and undo it all. I'm just enjoying the reality show and the reactions.
One thing that I do think is good out of this is that the overton window is being shifted. Ron Paul had a big impact on my thinking and opened my eyes to many of the issues with the state. Even just having someone get attention and say things that are never said has value.
Only a fool believes we will just wake up one day and be rid of the state. It will take many shifts in thinking. Pushing back on the programming. Many people are playing a role in it. Most aren't perfect. Hopefully the results from some of this stuff he's doing will have a long term positive effect on the minds of people.
For now this seems like a pendulum swing to me though.
I think they are going to seek to do lasting damage, although you're right that permanent damage may be infeasible.
One of the main reasons people take government jobs is the perception of job security. This may rattle people enough that it breaks that perception and risk averse people get in the habit of looking elsewhere for work.
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One of the main reasons people take government jobs is the perception of job security.
Is that ever true. I worked in education for a while and I could not take the culture of lack luster effort. It was far from universal but more common than in the private sector.
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My sense is that people realize they don't have to perform after they're in the job and start coasting then.
To some extent, that's just a natural outcome of the job security point. If you're not likely to be fired for low effort, you're more likely to give low effort.
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100% and this happens anywhere but outside of government and union shops there are usually incentives to correct it. I have seen that the larger the entity the more likely this is to happen. Its not just that the state runs something that makes it broken. Its the incentives and you can recreate those incentives outside of government. You get the same result.
When I realized this it really opened my eyes to the deep problems with the state. Its not just that government is bad. Governance is not bad. Monopoly is bad. Also some things, many things just do not scale.
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