Thoughts on the history of the civil service, and recalcitrant bureaucrats:
🧵Pigs get fed. Hogs get slaughtered.
— alexandriabrown (@alexthechick) February 21, 2025
The deal for moving from a spoils system to a civil service system for government workers contained exchanges. The government workers were paid less than in the public sector. In exchange, they received job protections and a pension.
I thought the original phrase was: Bulls and Bears make money, but Pigs get slaughtered.
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