tylerkosh on Nostr: I think this comment from a reddit thread about the "buyout" () is the perfect ...
I think this comment from a reddit thread about the "buyout" (
https://www.reddit.com/r/fednews/comments/1icj3wc/this_non_buyout_really_seems_to_have_backfired/) is the perfect representation of the mindset of a lot of government employees. They are operating out of a place of fear because they are being forced to reckon with the fact that they have no optionality. They don't have any skills that are transferable outside of the government job they always have had. They have operated with this mindset that their job will always exist and the status quo will remain forever. Now they are having to come to terms with a reality that their job might no longer exist and they have to, for the first time, consider what their life outside of that would look like.
While I have some empathy for these people and do not wish hardship or pain on anyone, there needs to be recognition that this mindset and attitude is what has been bloating and weighing down our society for decades. People have been coddled by and become dependent on an unsustainable system for so long. The rubber is now meeting the road and someone has to feel the pain. While I am not a supporter of Trump and his party members, he is the natural response for a system that has taken so much and provided so little.
For all of us libertarians and anarchist out here on Nostr, I am here to tell you from the inside that Trump is actually fucking up the governement in a big way. The agency I work at (NIH) is a complete shitshow. Everyone is in complete panic mode. Selfishly, it's kind of fun to sit back and watch the beast eat itself from the inside.
This has made me realize there is a huge difference in the mentality of folks who live in DC vs. people like myself who are outside of that geographic bubble and where hired to work remotely during covid. Meanwhile, everyone just got an email titled "Fork in the Road" offering every fed employee a chance to resign by the end of next week. And yes... I will be taking that out and finally quit contributing to a fundamentally broken system that we as bitcoiners all despise. More to come later…
Published at
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