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cross-posted from: https://lemmy.blahaj.zone/post/39109347
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also they are more prpductive when they have more workers
The entire point of government is to correct for market failures. Public services shouldn't try to make a profit, because if something were profitable the private sector would've provided it already.
The "profit" of a government service comes in the form of positive externalities.
In fact, it would be detrimental to their budget to do so. If I'm budgeting various government services and see that a specific service is consistently ending the year with a lot of unspent money, I'll lower their budget so that the money can be spent where it's needed.
This is actually a bad thing that leads to wasteful spending. Use it or lose it budgeting creates perverse incentives to continuously spend.
As someone who has worked in the public sector for nearly two decades, this is spot on. The real fix would be to modify government accounting laws so that appropriated funding doesn't just expire at the end of any given fiscal year, or at a bare minimum make fiscal years longer than 12 months and have them overlap each other to some extent.
They are paid by citizens in the form of taxes in a sane society.
Edit: Including companies and billionaires, which should take the lead.
Billionaires should not exist in a sane society. Money isn’t just a prize for doing well, it’s unelected power, and people use it as an excuse to be selfish and shitty.
It’s like Reddit karma IRL.
Found this amusing earlier 😉