RE: Realism - not capitalism - is the reason behind the success of western democracies.
I work for the government, so I see it from the inside.
So you propose you get kicked out of your job?
like the 10 year stagnation in the building sector, increasing insovency of youth, degrading road network
full of people doing nothing
There is an easy solution for all of this: Just start to build!
building sector booms, youth get jobs and can pay, nothing-doer have things to do ;)
The question now is why does that not happens? The neoliberal dogma of provide and it happens surely has a problem here, since workforce and companies willing to work are there.
We don't acnowledge that it isn't sustainable as such.
Why is it not sustainable? All things you need to sustain it are produced - or, in worst case, could be produced with all the free workers and companies you mentioned.
where the public sector workforce bypassed that of the private sector
Don't confuse number of public workers with overhead!
For example, the food inspector who goes around in the restaurants and makes sure you don't get poisened is a public worker but no overhead.
If he uses a car that is used by a diverse set of other public workers, then that car is overhead, but not the worker.
Also the number of public employees is a bad measurement. Would it be good for the economy if you slash infrastructure work? Or is closing hospitals good for your health?
This is a public thread, but I could acnowledge that in a private company I would produce an order of magnitude more value.
Yeah, I know it's not a good measure, but I just wanted to provide a quantitative indicator of what seems obvious to me, that there is heaps of unnecessary friction. Of course the public sector provides invaluable services, but it's very inefficient. Don't you agree with me? Or do you see the public sector as very efficient?