Private Sector businesses have to please their customers to stay alive. Public Sector agencies merely have to raise taxes.
Private Sector organizations often go out of business. Agencies in the Public Sector always seem to grow. While vast sections, often, whole industries of the Private Sector disappear, Public Sectorites receive automatic increases in salaries, benefits and pensions.
Most of them pay union dues. Those dues are used to elect law-makers who, in return for their support, ensure a flow of money to them. Public Sector employment in a big, powerful country is the nearest thing to certainty that this world offers.
Some in the Public Sector pay a great personal cost. Their hearts become hardened. They begin to look at their neighbors as tax-objects. They learn not to think about the impoverishment of their neighbors that their continued raises cannot help but cause.
Since it is impossible to love ones’ neighbors while looting them, over time, they become separated from The God Who told us that neighbors are to be loved. The spiritual cost of neighbor-looting, regrettably, is only discovered after a far better retirement plan than that provided by any state does not kick in.
Other separations accompany the income disparity between Private and Public Sector employees. Just as “birds of a feather gather together”, Public Sector employees gravitate toward their own social groups.
Even within families, the two groups tend to separate . It can be unpleasant for Public Sectorites to be around people who suffer firings, lay-offs, transfers, and reductions in pay, benefits, and pensions. It is equally unpleasant for family members laid off from a Private Sector organization to be around relatives who barely seem to work at all while automatically amassing amazing assets.
The more sensitive Public Sectorites do have pangs of guilt about their comparative great fortune. These concerns, rarely serious enough to prompt leaving the Public Sector, usually disappear. The less sensitive revel in their great fortune and plot new ways to get more money from their ever-poorer neighbors.
It is interesting that Public Sectorites, comparatively wealthy though they are, have been shown to be far less inclined to give to charities.
Many of them seem to have concluded: “The world owes me a living.”
