1. Officials are disliked in Russia. Many demand officials to cut, cut their wages and, to the house, humiliate in every possible way, demanding to remember their secondary position in relation to the "common people". Blogger on Zen believes, that the main problem of Russia is not an excess of officials, and their lack. There was also a shortage of managers in the Russian Empire, and in the USSR, and has not yet been completely overcome:https://zen.yandex.ru/media/id/5fd837cc15ece8677e55f87a/organizaciia-rokovaia-problema-o-kotoroi-rukovodstvo-sssr-tak-i-ne-uznalo-61a1d6a3f30e8333ba8066e9
..The problem cannot be solved until then, not yet realized. Consequently, already bourgeois Russia inherited Soviet personnel difficulties in the field of state administration. And these problems remained highly non-trivial even after, how were they realized. Changed government and state ideology, but not a people. The management just calculated and was horrified: in Russia in the 1990s per capita accounted for 11 times fewer officials, than in the States (by the way, a country with a low level of bureaucracy by world standards), from which it was necessary to take an example of civilization building. But that's not why I was horrified, what else 10 there was nowhere to take workers to the already existing. And because, that played a huge role in 1980-1990 of the last century, the propaganda stance on the fight against bureaucracy has not disappeared anywhere, while maintaining a place of honor among the slogans of the new government. I.e, and the last - eleventh - employee also had to be reduced. And how then to govern the country? But no way. Yes, in the 1990s, the government did not manage anything. The problem of lack of labor in the service sector, meanwhile, decided. It turned, that you just need to open several times more outlets and - a miracle! - queues disappear. But even this was not accepted by the people immediately and without gratitude.. The Soviet worldview is slowly receding. And until now, the construction of another shopping and entertainment center is implicitly perceived as an anti-people action.. So, like bourgeois, building it, they themselves are going to pedal simulators in it and buy. With bureaucracy, everything was much more complicated. So that, when the government, decided, finally, manage something, the state apparatus underwent a long series of reforms, pursuing the goal of reducing its number. But having results, somehow, back. In reality, during, since the collapse of the USSR, the gap in the number of officials per capita between Russia and the United States has been halved to just 5.5 time….And here it should be noted, What are we talking about government employees?, not about civil servants (and municipal employees) at all. The latter include the police, the teacher, doctors, military, postman. And in Russia and, eg, railroad workers. Thank them, as well as the security forces, teachers and doctors, of which we have significantly more state-supported, than in Western countries, Russia successfully reaches the average European level of the share of employed in the public sector - about a quarter. Like in Japan and USA. In countries, constituting the core of the EU - Germany, Scandinavia, Benelux, England and France - a third of the population works for the state. But there are still very few officials in Russia. And that, that they are few, still remains one of the best kept state secrets. I.e, the government has long been aware of the matter, but just take and say, that more officials are needed - not yet. The people won't understand.
2. The government thought about doubling the number of officially recognized single-industry towns in Russia. Now a single-industry town is considered a settlement, in which at least 20 percent of the working-age population is employed at a city-forming enterprise. It is proposed to exclude cities from this list, located closer, than in 50 km from regional capitals:https://lenta.ru/news/2021/11/29/monoplan/ The logic is this: by private car and public transport from such cities you can get to your place of work in capital cities in less than an hour. Thereby, the problem of unemployment in "fake" single-industry towns will be solved. Their number will decrease from 321 to 163. Those excluded from the list will not be able to receive subsidies and benefits, redirecting these funds to support less well-located, "full-fledged" single-industry towns. The decision looks tough. However, there is a problem: Subsidizing single-industry towns in their current form often perpetuates their economic backwardness and hinders the growth of labor efficiency.3. In the "School of Capitalism" I talked about dividend kings. Or, more precisely, about the reasons, which encourage many investors year after year to buy exactly those shares, that bring regular dividends:https://sponsr.ru/capitalism/8441/Dividendnye_koroli
