• Empricorn@feddit.nl
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      11 months ago

      Somebody ask how much revenue their corporation’s IT dept generates. Then, ask the executives if they’d be fine if servers crashed, critical payment systems failed, and (God forbid!) their laptop stopped working…

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      11 months ago

      The government as a whole shouldn’t have to worry about it. Republicans think the government should be run like a business when it is nothing like a business.

      They think that it is like a business because it provides services and a business does too and they equate paying taxes with paying for restaurant food. It’s utter nonsense.