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100 sats \ 2 replies \ @Solomonsatoshi 26 Feb \ on: The Latest New Yorker Cover: "You're Fired!" Politics_And_Law
Ok but the world has changed since the 19th century.
The role of government has expanded and become increasingly complex.
The US became the global super power it is today.
US global hegemony is central to its wealth today.
It may be easy to look back and see the time when America was new and its position in the world less complex- but today US wealth and power rest upon it having since WW2 assumed the global hegemony Europe/UK handed over to it.
That role is not one of isolation and frontier simplisticity- it is one of global involvement and complicity. It is a world where the USA dominates global banking, institutions, protocols, trade rules and routes.
It is easy and popular to argue in modern democracy that there is too much bureaucracy but the world is now much more complex...especially for the USA compared to its 1900s frontier days.
Our New Zealand government previously engaged in a similar neoliberal-Libertarian campaign to DOGE is now waging with similar rhetoric and actions -including where they sacked 60 border biosecurity staff to save $1.3 million annual wage bill- the result?
Over a decade of multiple crippling border biosecurity incursions that cost primary producers and government tens of billions- and still incur costs as some of the new pests and disease can never be eradicated.
Remember when you sack these people some have combined skills and knowledge that cannot be easily or swiftly replaced when/if you realise several years later that the sacking was a mistake.
Beware politicians promising tax cuts and slashing the public service- its sometimes more complex and risky than it sounds.
Your comment is gaslighting
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Questioning the wisdom of US government cutting the public service given the much greater complexity of the world today and USAs role in it compared to the 19th century.
Have given one concrete example from my own country of how such populist cuts to the public service can go terribly wrong.
Can you explain what exactly is 'gaslighting' about that?
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