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Originally Posted by originalmuffins
That's my point, I'm not saying it's perfect in public sector, but I am not going to sit there and act like private sector is all of a sudden perfect either. We need to cut the BS and stop acting like private sector is some perfect utopia.
We see a lot of moaning and complaining about public funds and public sector budgets yet we don't see the same rhetoric when billion dollar corporations get bailed out or receive massive funding. A majority of the management firms in the Ottawa metro are designed to leech as much as they can from public sector funding, and working for 2 of those firms - it's annoying when someone acts like management firms are some saviours to get work done. This private sector elitism is a joke lol.
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I don't think anyone is trying to argue that the private sector is perfect, but having worked in both sectors, it's a night and day difference. The biggest reason for the gov's contentment with the status quo is because revenues come in the form of guaranteed taxpayer funds. An entire department could essentially grind to a halt for a week or two (as is the case during strikes) and there is no effect on the bottom line. The only people who suffer are the people counting on that dept's services and the taxpayers pouring money into a pit.
Aside from the few corps you've alluded to that take gov bailouts, the vast majority are only playing themselves when they operate dysfunctional workplaces, because taxpayers aren't on the hook for it. And even so, the rate of such dysfunction or inefficiency is far, far lower in the private sector because corps have an inherent incentive to succeed - literally staying alive.
Nothing I'm saying is new, but it needs to be re-emphasized that the public service absolutely deserves every ounce of scrutiny it gets, not just because it's an undeniably inefficient hellhole of bureaucracy, but because taxpayers are on the hook for all of it.
Put it this way, is it more upsetting to see kid a failing his university classes after his parents paid his tuition fees, or see his buddy do the same thing but piss away his own money instead?
I'm starting to feel the PS has been this way for so long that many of the arguments in its defence are nothing more than a coping measure.