I get irritated by the characterization of average public servants (and teachers for that matter) as money grubbers. It’s actually comic. Working for the community for your entire life without pin-balling from job to job I search of higher salary, then retiring comfortably—meaning maintaining a middle class life—well my god isn’t that what the goal is of every economic system? At least ostensibly? So what the hell is the problem, amiright? There are those exposes that show cops, for instance, in big cities who have gamed the system and make these big ol salaries (usually with overtime and side hussles included) and people point and say look!! How dare they! And ok fine, let’s not let that minuscule percent of the population work the overtime beat. Whatever. But the belief that average government/public employees in a system of tens of thousands (hundreds of thousands?) of people are retiring as multimillionaires is 1) ludicrous and 2) parsimonious toward people who make the world go round.
I get irritated by the characterization of average public servants (and teachers for that matter) as money grubbers. It’s actually comic. Working for the community for your entire life without pin-balling from job to job I search of higher salary, then retiring comfortably—meaning maintaining a middle class life—well my god isn’t that what the goal is of every economic system? At least ostensibly? So what the hell is the problem, amiright? There are those exposes that show cops, for instance, in big cities who have gamed the system and make these big ol salaries (usually with overtime and side hussles included) and people point and say look!! How dare they! And ok fine, let’s not let that minuscule percent of the population work the overtime beat. Whatever. But the belief that average government/public employees in a system of tens of thousands (hundreds of thousands?) of people are retiring as multimillionaires is 1) ludicrous and 2) parsimonious toward people who make the world go round.