To: Solon who wrote (12681 ) 5/10/2002 5:42:37 PM From: TimF Read Replies (1) | Respond to Now you are beginning to understand. It is the same reason that Enron can dupe millions of investors, or that thousands of companies can pay their Board half million dollar salaries and stock options and bonusses when the company has .13 cents in the bank and a demand loan owing at 20%. Productivity is evaluated by the benefit of what is being done , not by how much time is left to spend on other things. is being done is lower. If you could reduce the amount of time the work took you could use that time to do more work and thus increase what is being done , which would presumably increase the " benefit of what is being done ", unless you where doing something that produced no benefit, and if the government is doing that I don't think it should be considered very productive. My point is that it (government) operates within market forces Your statement that public employees were less productive than private employees sounded flippant to me.
