Adam Eran

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• March 5, 2011, on Life Without Lawyers:

  What's so discouraging about this review is Greenspun's uncritical acceptance of the factually-challenged fruit of Libertarian think tanks. For example he asserts "A government job, on average, pays twice as much as a private-sector job."
  
  This is, of course, a lie, or at best, bullshit. See Robert Reich's correction to this whole line of thinking, for just one example.
  
  The truth: When comparing government employees with the private sector employees in reality, that is comparing similar jobs (apples to apples, attorneys to attorneys, and total compensation including benefits), the public sector pays 4-9% less than the private sector. If Greenspun gets his way, odds are that discount will disappear because government workers will not have the job security that previously made them willing to accept lower pay.
  
  Notice that there's no mention of the historic rea...