Gov Workers Are Learning a Harsh Economic Truth

There’s a new video circulating of a woman named Isabella who was recently fired from her job at the National Forest Service.

She’s standing at a podium with an American flag behind her, she’s very earnest as she describes the effort that she put into her job, and how she was suddenly, and unexpectedly terminated. 

Of course, her story is being picked up by those who oppose the cuts that President Trump is making in the federal workforce, and used as an example of the “human” side of these layoffs. One Senator says he refuses to let these firings stand, and he is going to fight for terminated federal employees.

(I can’t help but wonder if he used his platform and position to “fight” for federal employees who were fired for refusing the illegal Biden vaccine mandate?) 

Hmmm…

Look—I get it. Losing a job is hard. Nobody likes being told they’re no longer needed. But the way these fired federal workers are framing their layoffs continues to surprise me. It’s like they believe that they have some sort of right to be employed indefinitely. 

It’s fascinating, really.

Because what Isabella and thousands of other government employees are experiencing right now is what millions of people in the private sector have always known—your job exists as long as it’s valuable to the people paying for it.

For decades, federal workers have had the luxury of (correctly) assuming they were untouchable.

Government jobs have been a golden ticket—getting one meant you were set for life, complete with pensions, benefits, and the comfort of knowing that you’d likely never face a layoff because of budget cuts or downsizing.

Now, much to my surprise, it looks like the government actually is downsizing.

And the fact that these federal employees find this shocking proves just how insulated they were from the reality the rest of us have lived with forever.

These folks are also learning another hard truth: Just because you put effort into something doesn’t mean it’s valuable.

Karl Marx made famous his labor theory of value—the idea that the more effort or time goes into something, the more valuable it is. 

But reality doesn’t work that way.

The value of something isn’t determined by the sweat poured into it—it’s determined by how much other people actually want or need it. By how much they’re willing to pay for it.

It doesn’t matter how many hours someone spends crafting a hand-woven basket if nobody wants to buy it. It doesn’t matter how much passion an artist pours into a painting if no one wants to hang it on their wall.

And it turns out… it doesn’t matter how long someone has worked for the government if their job isn’t actually necessary.

Private-sector employees know this. They know that if they stop providing value—if they show up late, slack off, or demand a paycheck while doing work no one actually needs—they won’t have a job for long.

Government employees though, have mostly lived in a world where paychecks keep coming whether or not their work is useful.

So what’s happening now isn’t actually an injustice. It’s certainly not illegal. It’s not even unfair, although it may feel that way. 

It’s simply reality catching up to a lot of people who have never had to experience it.

That’s why teaching kids about real economics is so important—so they don’t grow up thinking their job is a right or an entitlement rather than something they have to actually earn (and something that can go away if it is no longer valuable to those paying for it).

Our Tuttle Twins books teach these truths. 

In The Tuttle Twins and the Messed Up Market, kids learn about the real way value is created—not through effort alone, but through innovation, service, and meeting people’s actual needs.

If you don’t want your kids to grow up learning economics the hard way (like these government workers just did), get them started sooner rather than later.

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So grab the deal, get some books, and teach your kids about the way the world works before they get brainwashed to believe the lies that have crippled generations. 

Too many people have spent too much of their lives with their hand out, believing they’ve been robbed, because they don’t understand that the labor theory of value is a lie. 

I want to empower the rising generation to be true innovators and world-shapers. To be true value creators who build businesses and make contributions that lead to human flourishing and real prosperity. 

People who know that they don’t need the government to make a good life for themselves and their families.

Join me.

— Connor