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One can only hope!
One can only hope!
The funny thing is, even after the 100% price increase they’re still cheaper than american EVs.
I mean, neosporin is mostly vaseline
You're right of course, this article specifically talks about civil servants (i.e. bureaucrats) and not other government employees like elected officials or military service members.
The TLDR is that for almost any given thing we want the government to do, it's cheaper and more efficient to hire government workers to do it than to hire contractors and nonprofits. The author generalized this conclusion from studies finding a correlation between higher quality dept of transport employees and lower department costs. Makes sense to me.
I heard a great talk with Sian Sutherland on plastic reduction recently, specifically around brand agnostic standardized metal bottles: https://youtu.be/jTs6KejhSg4?feature=shared
Except in this case there is no date set yet. They've just agreed that they're willing to strike.
Pistol shrimp. Nice.