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The German Bureaucratic Dream Of "Society with Bound Capital"
The German Bureaucratic Dream Of "Society with Bound Capital"
Submitted by Thomas Kolbe
They form a massive workforce, the last continuously growing sector of our society: civil servants.
Approximately 5.5 million employees work in the public sector, and last year alone, 205,000 new civil servants were added.
This is by no means a blind attack on the bureaucracy. Civil servants indispensable to our society work to maintain internal and external security and uphold the judiciary as guardians of law and order.
Yet the question must be allowed. How can a civil service army grow...
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