Stephen Kinsella: All workers deserve public sector conditions
Private sector workers have a right to be enraged when a public sector worker, just by dint of a job choice, enjoys a stream of lifetime benefits
Some of the world’s first public sector workers were donkeys. This fact is not well known, and it takes some explaining. Bear with me a moment.
In 1696, the great mathematician Sir Isaac Newton retired from scientific work and took up a sinecure as warden, and later master, of the Royal Mint.
The word ‘sinecure’ literally means ‘without a care’. The wardenship of the mint was a do-nothing job for a man who had ...
