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Originally Posted by PepsiFree
For one, I’m not sure why the suggestion that public sector jobs are somehow lesser than private sector or self-employment jobs persists. Sorry if you think otherwise, but with everything equal, a public nurse or social worker adds more value to society than a self-employed accountant or an investor at some equity firm. The latter is basically a parasite.
Two, it’s a pretty easy tell based on the graph that jobs that offered more stability grew faster. Self-employed people having nothing to fall back on and private sector employers sacrificing their people during the pandemic did not help.
Three, I’m not really sure why we care at all for the opinions of said “investor” whose circle seems to consist of people who believe Canada isn’t “masculine” enough, cheer for worker exploitation in the name of profit, and want an economic revolution that leads to record-breaking unemployment. Like, for real, we care what these people have to say on the matter?
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Apology accepted. But everything is not equal.
Using Nurses and Social workers is a useless strawman, easily discarded.
Do you really think the enormous volume of additional public workers employed are important frontline staff doing the hard work?
If they were, would we be going through an epidemic shortage of Teachers and Nurses?
These people being employed are straight bloat.
Much like the broken 'Political Line' it is disingenuous to say 'Public vs. Private' work. Each has to stand upon its own merits.
To say a public worker is more or less valuable than a private one is a preposterous position. What kind of work? What kind of money? What kind of pension? How many to screw in a lightbulb?
It is not ceteris paribus ergo 'all is not equal,' each has to be evaluated upon its own merits and the downstream effects of which need to be considered.
We've hired a crapload of Public sector workers. Is your Hospital-going experience better? How about Policing? Tax collection?
So we've increased the numbers of people, but what are we receiving in return?