The Burden We Bear

I read today that less than 1 of a 1,000 federal employees were denied raises due to poor job performance. The problem is that they judge themselves and, further, that they judge themselves by the standard of, uh, themselves. Yeah, that's right, they have to measure up to themselves. Kafkaesque, eh-no?

 

Bureaucracy is eternal and unchangeable in its ways. Public unions merely accentuate the negative. Since improved bureaucratic performance violates the laws of human nature and human social organization--the only way to ameliorate the pathology is to reduce the quantity of bureaucrats. Reduced quantity means less harm from low quality.