• spaceghoti
    +4

    I'm not sure if you're being sarcastic or not, but no, I've not.

    Then you are the exception. If you know a way to streamline every work process so bottlenecks never appear, go and publish that book or patent that process. You'll make a fortune. Until then, it's unreasonable to hold the world to a standard that only exists inside your head.

    If we adopted that stance nationwide prices of everything would skyrocket and our economy would be unable to compete.

    I don't know what you're talking about here, but I presume you mistook Taylorism for some sort of socialism. It was actually the opposite: Taylor proposed a system for "scientific management" in human labor to the degree that workers almost started a Marxist revolution in the US over labor practices. Humans aren't machines, and it's not a good idea to treat us that way.

    I don't see why expecting the government to use the money we pay in taxes efficiently can be considered a bad thing.

    It's one thing to expect government to spend its funding efficiently. It's another to hold the government to a standard that doesn't exist in private industry, either.

    • Orestes910
      +5

      I can see you're approaching this from the human dignity angle, but I'm talking about the reality that exists now. Right now we have people paying taxes out of their salaries that they work, to varying degrees, very hard for. When the government uses those taxes to spend $80 on a hammer when a hammer that works just as well is available for $40, that is a failure of the social contract.

      End result is this, if the rest of us are expected to work all day to pay for the roads, the people making the roads should be expected to work all day too.