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4.5 million federal workers in the United States.

340 million citizens.

1.32% of citizens work for the *federal* government.

No State should be this large.
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Code & Psychology ⚡️ · 125w
Bureaucracy generates unproductive people. And there is no free market to rule them out.
noKYC ⚡︎ · 125w
Have you seen the numbers from Brazil or Argentina?
PC · 125w
That’s nothing. In Norway, roughly 34% of the working population works in the public sector (out of which 10% work in government agencies) Norwegian wiki page: https://no.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Offentlig_sektor#:~:text=Offentlig%20sektor%20(stat%2C%20kommune%20og,forel%C3%B8pige%20tall%20fra%20SSB%2...
Keith · 125w
Now think about this: of the 350M citizens only 165M make up the labor force. This is working age, non-disabled people. The labor force participation rate is “reported” to be 62%. Roughly 102M people are working to support the other 248M. This also translates into about 4.6% of the workforce dir...
Matrix⚡️ · 125w
Here in Germany it’s 11% 🥴
Bitchair · 125w
In Czech we are 10mil and have 400k goverment workers and when you go deep there is more than 900k on gov bill. Around 6mil are just kids and retited :))