CherryWhat age do you stop trusting the government?
https://piefed.social/c/asklemmy/p/1840495/what-age-do-you-stop-trusting-the-government
AskewLordWhen I was about 20 in college I learned that saying shit like ‘the government’ is stupid. Because there is no ‘the government’.
There are agencies, institutions, and individuals in the government. All with varying levels of competence and corruption and incentives. Some of them are amazing, others are really shitty. Just like people or companies or anything. There are also multiple levels of government and so many people are angry at the feds over property taxes which has nothing to do with the feds.
And I learned to avoid interacting with people who think in massive generalized terms about anything, because they tend to be very emotional and very irrational.
Sadly, most people who understand this seem to just lurk.
Maybe each unhinged commenter scares away a nuanced commenter and a bit, until some kind of equilibrium is reached.
I fully endorse this point, but with an added caveat. The government is made up of people, just like any other organization, but there is often less money to be had in the public sector than the private sector (corruption notwithstanding) so often you wind up with people passionate about their work, but occasionally you have people who aren’t talented enough to hack it in the private sector.