Facebook Follies of Friends and Families

[Josquius]

I can't tell from that tweet whether the six schools are state run or not.

Define state run.
They exist under the current system of competition.

[Admiral Yi]

Seriously?

[Syt]

Popped up in my LinkedIn feed because someone I'm connected with liked it.

[Tamas]

My favourite is considering citizens as employees of the state. Orban and Putin definitely approve that.

[Razgovory]

The best example of I can come up with for a government run like a business was the Congo Free State.

[viper37]

Popped up in my LinkedIn feed because someone I'm connected with liked it.

I'm not convinced Tesla employees are happy at working there.  Nor are those left at X.  Certainly not those fired/let go for trivialities.

Musk failed miserably at keeping its citizens happy and creating GDP growth for two of his companies.  The one that is doing good is the one he does not work anymore for since he took over X.

[Norgy]

My favourite is considering citizens as employees of the state. Orban and Putin definitely approve that.

Even those in the private sector? 

Despite my fondness for regulating the market, I have never worked outside the private sector. But I suppose a journalist would be a state employee in those two's view.

"You write this"
"Yes, sir"

[Josquius]

How would this company as a business go about redundancies?

[The Minsky Moment]

How would this company as a business go about redundancies?

"Liquidate labor, liquidate stocks, liquidate farmers, liquidate real estate. It will purge the rottenness out of the system."

[Barrister]

Despite my fondness for regulating the market, I have never worked outside the private sector.

It's funny how life works.

Despite my fondness for the private sector, I've been a public servant for 20 years now and counting.

[Norgy]

Despite my fondness for regulating the market, I have never worked outside the private sector.

It's funny how life works.

Despite my fondness for the private sector, I've been a public servant for 20 years now and counting.

I am sure you have had a more interesting career than me. The most soul-wrenching part was in the "communications industry". Which basically is lobbying or advertising.

Thing is, you've never struck me as a particularly conservative person, just someone with a moral backbone.

[Barrister]

Despite my fondness for regulating the market, I have never worked outside the private sector.

It's funny how life works.

Despite my fondness for the private sector, I've been a public servant for 20 years now and counting.

I am sure you have had a more interesting career than me. The most soul-wrenching part was in the "communications industry". Which basically is lobbying or advertising.

Thing is, you've never struck me as a particularly conservative person, just someone with a moral backbone.

The thing is I feel like I *am* a conservative person - I believe in God, King and Country, personal responsibility, the importance of the family, the need to treat people with respect and humility, the inherent efficiency of the free market, the value of human rights, the significance of the rule of law...

I just don't see that as much as I used to on the political right these days.

[Norgy]

The traditional conservatism of Burke of gradual change to keep a system that is basically working is not bad in my book (it is by the way not written by Mao or red).

Despite voting left all my life, I am also a monarchist as I see how divisive presidential elections would be.

Basically, I think what the world needs is more cross-aisle talks and toning down the authoritarianism a few notches. And, well, preserve nature and actually address climate change without a bunch of well-dressed people flying half the world to meet.

Then again, I have few illusions left about "working for the betterment" or "saving the world". We're all so screwed. I donate some money to Doctors Without Borders and the Red Cross each month. They need it more than I do. Damage control, we used to call it in PR.

[viper37]

After hearing of Scots over the years, I think this is totally believable. 

[Crazy_Ivan80]

Comedy gold