That is a funny twist. Government employees are generally overpaid as per the actual labor market. You are referring to corporatism not collectivism. And neither work for the long-term.
Maybe Texas is different, but I live on the left coast and have been directly involved with community budget difficulties from the crushing expense of government employees. A senior city fire fighter used to be able to retire after 30 years of service (at age 50) at 90% of his pay which would be $135,000 on average and 100% of his he and his family health care covered for life. And all of it would be inflation adjusted.
I have friends that have worked for the federal government. Would have all their relocation expenses covered, retired in their late 50s. Same type of situation. And no, these government workers do not have any more difficult jobs than do their peers in the private sector. They benefit from job security and for this reason they have to work with a bunch of low energy losers... and that makes the job more difficult. However, there is much more competition for jobs and positions in the private sector and employees have to hustle more.
The primary issue is that private sector workers are having to rely on their own savings from their own pay to retire on other than maybe 25% of their retirement expenses being covered by SS that they paid into. Because private sector workers have to fund their own healthcare too. And inflation eats up their savings unlike the government pensioner who even if Biden and the Democrats fuck up the economy, will see their pension payments increased.
"government employees that are all paid significantly more than their private sector peers in total compensation"
That's the fault of the private sector, not government.
"Collectivism does not work."
Agreed, but consider that corporations are collectives.
That is a funny twist. Government employees are generally overpaid as per the actual labor market. You are referring to corporatism not collectivism. And neither work for the long-term.
Maybe Texas is different, but I live on the left coast and have been directly involved with community budget difficulties from the crushing expense of government employees. A senior city fire fighter used to be able to retire after 30 years of service (at age 50) at 90% of his pay which would be $135,000 on average and 100% of his he and his family health care covered for life. And all of it would be inflation adjusted.
I have friends that have worked for the federal government. Would have all their relocation expenses covered, retired in their late 50s. Same type of situation. And no, these government workers do not have any more difficult jobs than do their peers in the private sector. They benefit from job security and for this reason they have to work with a bunch of low energy losers... and that makes the job more difficult. However, there is much more competition for jobs and positions in the private sector and employees have to hustle more.
The primary issue is that private sector workers are having to rely on their own savings from their own pay to retire on other than maybe 25% of their retirement expenses being covered by SS that they paid into. Because private sector workers have to fund their own healthcare too. And inflation eats up their savings unlike the government pensioner who even if Biden and the Democrats fuck up the economy, will see their pension payments increased.