The topic of bond breaking recently came up again. Hmmm…. Anyway, I was thinking about some of the stuff I read online by a certain bond breaker and the stuff that I hear from my friends and I realized something – some of these guys want the best of both worlds.
Here is the thing – some of these bond breakers who placed the self above the country wants the government to do more for the people and stop running the country like a corporation.
Do you get the problem here?
I mean….sure, you can accuse the government of being the ones who first started treating the country like a heartless corporation and you can criticize the ministers for their obscene pay, and then claim they were the cause of you becoming disillusioned and thus whatever selfish decision you made were a consequence of them setting the precedents.
Right….
I mean … bond breakers basically did some mental calculation, weighed the opportunity costs and decided that whatever they signed up for earlier was not worth their time and effort and thus rescinded on their obligation to serve the nation.
I’m not sure of the impact on the decision making process of these bond breakers if the government and ministers had done things differently.
Who knows?
It is one thing to be critical of the government. It is another thing to be critical when you, as a bond breaker, are basically doing the same things as them. Well, not exactly the same in form but the same in substance.
Example: Saying you are leaving a government job because the pay isn’t up to scratch with market rates and then turning around and saying Ministers shouldn’t be getting paid up to the level of market rates. Of course, you can say the ministers are setting an example for you. I think, more likely, the powers that be realized that potential ministers are just like you.
Sad. Who will break this cycle? Not the bond breakers evidently.
Basically, everyone is just looking out for Numero Uno.
But maybe, just maybe, we should hold the government to a higher standard even though we make excuses for ourselves (note:I’m including myself here).
That would indeed be a convenient way to live our lives.
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