Taxpayer-funded jobs are the payoff for being on “Team Left”.
If you drag yourself out of bed at dawn to grind away in a real wealth-creating job, congratulations — you’re getting absolutely screwed by taxes so some lazy grifter can pocket $400K a year plus $60K super.
Almost half a million dollars for a “Multicultural Coordinator.”
Half a million dollars for a completely useless parasite — a fake “job” manufactured for a Labor Party hack.
And then you wonder why Australia is circling the drain, productivity is in the toilet, and living standards are collapsing for everyone actually producing value.
Why the hell would anyone bust their arse to invest, take real risks, and build a business when you can just suck up to the political correctness machine, push the woke agenda, and rake in half a million dollars doing sweet FA?
Exhibit 2, by The Heartlands Tribune in the UK:
Westminster has built a country where we spend more money on the planning paperwork for a single road than it costs other nations to build an entire mountain tunnel.
This isn’t a system accidentally strangled by red tape: it is a highly lucrative industry. A vast priesthood of consultants and lawyers is making a fortune they have no interest in the work being done.
It is corruption by bureaucracy, and working-class communities are footing the bill for projects that never even see a spade in the ground.
The absolute paralysis of modern Britain was laid bare in a recent parliamentary committee. …
- Take the Lower Thames Crossing. The planning application alone has swallowed more than a quarter of a billion pounds. For that exact same amount, Norway actually constructed the world’s longest road tunnel. We spent it on paper, and we have not even turned a sod of earth. This is a permission state eating itself alive.
- Look at HS2, the most expensive railway line on earth. Part of the reason it cost so much is that we are spending £121 million on a specific “bat tunnel” to protect a few hundred bats living in a nearby wood, a wood the line does not even pass through.
- Look at Hinkley Point C, the most expensive nuclear power station in human history. For eight years, developers locked in a multi-million-pound wrangle with regulators over installing an underwater “fish disco”, an acoustic deterrent to stop fish swimming into the pipes. 20 years ago, we built nuclear fleets at a fraction of the cost. Today, we sacrifice national infrastructure to the gods of endless compliance.
- The final absurdity is the plan to reopen just 3.3 miles of an existing railway line between Bristol and Portishead, a route already built but closed during the Beeching cuts. The planning application is 80,000 pages long. Over one thousand of those pages are about bats.
We have created a system that trades in paper while the real economy rots. The working class pay the price for this institutional cowardice. They pay for it in soaring energy bills, missing homes, broken transport links, and a country that cannot build the future it keeps promising.
The purpose of the system is revealed by what it does. Naturally you only get these jobs if you have left credentials or at least express the woke pieties as required.