*** Official Politics Shitposting Thread ***

[oskar]

It is unjustified to say political offices should be given to the most qualified people rather than relatives of the person in charge of that decision?

[wufwugy]

It is unjustified to say political offices should be given to the most qualified people rather than relatives of the person in charge of that decision?

Those aren't mutually exclusive. Hires are along the lines of the perceived "most productive", and that is filtered through lens with a bunch of asymmetric information. This is why employers so often hire people they know. As experience and comfort with somebody increases, the risk (cost) to employing them decreases.

The issue of nepotism is not about nepotism. Nepotism is fantastic in the private sector because of how incentives are structured in that space. Yet it is awful in the public sector also for incentive structure reasons. Even with that in mind, nepotism probably can't be fixed in the public sector by trying to alter nepotism. You can probably only reduce the power of the public sector if you want to reduce the negative impact of nepotism.

[oskar]

... nepotism probably can't be fixed in the public sector by trying to alter nepotism. You can probably only reduce the power of the public sector if you want to reduce the negative impact of nepotism.

That part is gobbledygook. You could have stopped at: Nepotism is bad in the public sector.

[wufwugy]

That part is gobbledygook. You could have stopped at: Nepotism is bad in the public sector.

It is when we investigate why it is bad in the public sector that we derive that trying to fix nepotism directly will likely be just as bad or worse. Nepotism exists because it lowers costs, yet in the public sector it causes some external costs that it doesn't in the private sector. Trying to solve for external costs is really hard without changing the underlying structure. Humans have very little success when trying to solve externalities without changing underlying structure that causes the incentives that cause those externalities.

[Poopadoop]

So are you in favour of Invanka the high level advisor or not?

[wufwugy]

So are you in favour of Invanka the high level advisor or not?

I'm not a micro manager so I don't have an opinion on this specific instance.

[Poopadoop]

High level advisors don't fall under the rubric of micro-managing. I'm not asking if you think Trump's third cousin can work in a post office in North Dakota. Can his daughter serve in any useful capacity in the higher echelon of government that another female model couldn't?