Unionized public-sector employment is the distilled essence
of the left's moral ideal. No one has to worry about making
a profit. Generous health-care and retirement benefits are
provided to everyone by the government. Comfortable pay is
mandated by legislative fiat. The work rules are militantly
egalitarian: pay, promotion, and job security are almost
totally independent of actual job performance. And because
everyone works for the government, they never have to worry
that their employer will go out of business.
In short, public employment is an idealized socialist economy
in miniature, including its political aspect: the grateful
recipients of government largesse provide money and
organizational support to re-elect the politicians who shower
them with all of these benefits.
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