The next big thing for the Left and city watchers in general is asking why so many public services get farmed out to nonprofits where executives earn absurd salaries and there's such little accountabilityhttps://www.thecity.nyc/2021/6/1/22464152/morales-nyc-mayoral-campaign-turmoil-deja-vu-for-former-staff …
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Hang around politics long enough and you basically run into the cult of the nonprofit. Nonprofits can do no wrong. They do the "real" work government can't. A lot of people on the Left celebrate this kind of privatization.
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This is a *huge* issue in a lot of cities, including the one I live in. Nonprofits, foundations & universities make up a virtual parallel government, drawing talented people out of actual govt into jobs where they can "work on issues" w/ better conditions and less accountability.
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Among other things, this parallel government is profoundly inefficient. Those in the actual gov't have to spend a lot of time serving as liaisons to the various nonprofits and foundations on all the initiatives they are working on. Instead of the actual gov't just doing the work.
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It’s just a function of austerity and neoliberal capitalism. I don’t think the jobs are usually better conditions - I think they are usually worse. Giant social service orgs for example are less likely to be Union, for example, then the dept of social services.
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