In the US at least, government employees are more likely to be Black relative to the population, so there's an added racist component about government employees being stupid and lazy.
My grandfather has this complaint but from the other direction. When he was in government directly after the revolution, he and his comrades worked tirelessly, and he sees some government employees today who seem to be on their phones half the time instead of, idk, doing socialism harder, and and has thoughts.
And I'm like your experience of having to liberate China, rebuild the nation after said war and also WWII, rapidly industrialize, increase the life expectancy by over 20 years, educate the people, revolutionize culture, redistribute land, build roads, rail and dams, terraform large swathes of the country to combat the Gobi desert, etc etc. All while dealing with natural disasters, famine, western imperialism in Korea, the Sino Soviet split, etc etc. Your experience and the 25 year old watching Douyin on his phone's experience is unlikely to be on the same level. It's probably not time to have a struggle session about the clerk looking at his phone when there are no other people in the lobby (this was in a government building that does shenfenzhen ID, licenses, etc on a quiet afternoon with only 3 other people in the waiting area).
Calling the youth lazy and ignorant is a time-honored tradition. Doesn't even matter what country you're in, every place has it. My family members in North Africa all think that the "youngins" are the main reason why government bureaucracy moves at a glacial pace, and not the fact that most of the workforce is made up of unpaid interns who are 8 years out of university and slowly having the life sucked out of them.
The unfortunate consequences of people having to use their phones for work while the older generations see them as toys
If I ever get control of some kind of super power I'm putting John Calvin on trial and sentencing him to the hell dimension.
Chuds said the same about "pampered teachers" and called us "glorified babysitters" until they made teachers so powerless to do anything but obey the privatized testing industrial complex that they got their wishes and manifested their fucked up reality.
Government jobs should be cushy so the people doing those jobs are ideally not going to beholden to bribes or corruption. Millennia of warlords got to do their warlording because they gave kickbacks. It's a time proven strategy. Rewarding "your guys" is the first step to ensuring your back doesn't get a knife in it.
Precisely. If one is rewarded handsomely, they will be less inclined to look to other sources for income, or betray their leaders for a reward.
In reality a lot of government jobs are worse paid and have worse conditions than comparable jobs in the private sector. At least where I live the public sector is riddled with bureaucracy and incompetent management, especially in the jobs where you are supposed to do something useful, like teaching, or nursing or elder care. And ever-present austerity means that everyone is overworked, unable to feel the satisfaction of doing a good job and under constant stress.
I still remember when my school district shelled out ~300k $ for some consultants to show up and tell us that the kids play space would be nicer if the paint wasn't peeling from the walls and if we could build another playhouse that would be fun
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Same district that didn't have money to pay for painting the walls or building a new playhouse btw.
The school where my partner works has had roughly 30% of employees forced on long-term sick leave from work-related stress alone during the latest year.
This is caused in part by a budgetary death spiral in which fewer students leads to budget cuts that leads to worse service that leads to fewer students and in part by a management that is either incompetent or directly hostile and tyrannic.
The liberal inside me kind of expected someone in some official capacity to do something when a workplace destroys one employee after the other. But this has gone on for years.
All the socially useful jobs like teaching, nursing and home care are being demolished by austerity and have been since the days of noted warcriminal Anders Fogh Rasmussen. At my useless e-mail job with the tax authorities I atleast get a raise every year, even if it isn't a lot, meanwhile my mother, a teacher for 30 years, hasn't gotten a raise since 2011. Only way she makes extra money now is by doing more work, which means it isn't a raise anymore, and she is instead just working more.
Are u arriving at this conclusion from the blowjob post lololol
... On the economic basis referred to above, the political institutions of modern capitalism — press, parliament, associations, congresses, etc. — have created political privileges and sops for the respectful, meek, reformist and patriotic office employees and workers, corresponding to the economic privileges and sops. Lucrative and soft jobs in the government or on the war industries committees, in parliament and on diverse committees, on the editorial staffs of “respectable”, legally published newspapers or on the management councils of no less respectable and “bourgeois law- abiding” trade unions — this is the bait by which the imperialist bourgeoisie attracts and rewards the representatives and supporters of the “bourgeois labour parties”. pg.133
It's a living. 
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