Price of injustice – official: The silent division of the Republic

Officials were once considered a guarantor of stability, reliability and the rule of law. Today it is the breeding ground for social resentment. More and more people are not seeing this system as a support of the community, but as a privilege apparatus that takes care of itself while others are scolding. In a society that preaches equality, there is an elite that isobligation to social equality seems exempt. Officials enjoy advantages that hardly anyone can understand – tax-free surcharges, secured pensions, low taxes, secure jobs. All of this is financed by those who work under precarious conditions and whose pensions are uncertain. This has consolidated a system that is not there for the citizens, butstands above them.

The state pays itself

The irony of civil servants lies in its structure: A state that promises equality creates a caste system. While layoffs, time limits and wage pressure prevail in the private sector, civil service knows neither existential fear nor risk. This security would be justifiable if it were paid by the same standards as any other job. Instead,Privileges taken for granted, although no factual reason justifies them anymore.

A teacher who works as a civil servant at a public school earns significantly more than a colleague without this status for the same work – although both give the same lessons, take the same exams, bear the same responsibility. This inequality would be questionable in itself, but it becomes a symbol of a deeper problem: a state that creates its own elite,loses connection to the population that finances it.

Inequality with official seal

The civil service embodies institutionalized inequality. The tax-free surcharges and special regulations, the lower taxes, the secured pension scheme – all of this is in sharp contrast to the burdens on the rest of the population. While workers in the free economy have to endure increasing contributions and unsafe prospects, civil servant status remains untouchable.This imbalance is sold as normal, but it acts like a provocation.

Anyone who experiences the same work being evaluated differently loses confidence in the fairness of state decisions. The state, which should actually stand for justice, practices the opposite with its own staff. Every tax return, every levy will be a reminder that there are people who benefit from the system without the system ever punishing themcould.

The Myth of Special Responsibility

In defense of this special position, the argument of special responsibility is often used. Officials are a guarantee of neutrality, fulfillment of duty and the rule of law, so they deserve special treatment. But this argument breaks down as soon as you look at reality. Many officials have long been fulfilling tasks that are identical to activities in the private sector: teachers,Administrative staff, technicians, IT specialists, lawyers, doctors in the public sector. What about this work is supposed to justify a higher identity with the state than in any other industry where people bear responsibility on a daily basis?

Officials were once an expression of loyalty to the state. Today it acts like a protective shield against reality. The official hardly takes any more responsibility, but is freed from her. A failure that would have consequences in the private sector has no consequences. The security of employment surpasses any other form of employment – a privilege thatBreak line between the bourgeoisie and administration inexpensively deepened.

The breeding ground of distrust

This structural injustice does not remain without consequences. It undermines the social fabric because it nourishes the feeling that performance doesn’t count, but belonging. Officials live in a safe microcosm, shielded from economic uncertainty, while millions of employees have to bear rising costs, falling real wages and brittle pensions.

The result is a growing discord, a distrust of the administration itself. Authorities are no longer perceived as service providers, but as closed systems in which privileges are more important than performance. Those who pay taxes experience themselves as a financier of an apparatus that increases itself. This creates frustration, anger and distance – a dangerous breeding groundfor social division.

Privileges without performance control

What makes the whole thing particularly toxic is the moral unassailability of the civil servants. He controls himself. Performance evaluations are of a formal nature, administrative processes protect their own members from pressure or consequences. In a world that lives from competition, the official is freed from it. This is not only economically inefficient, but also creates a psychological onedig. The citizen who has to pay for every mistake experiences the official as unassailable, regardless of competence or commitment.

The civil service has moved away from the ideal of service and has become a symbol of claim. The self-designation as “public service” looks like mockery when the payment is above average, the supply is safe and the risks do not exist. The trust of the population crumbles because it no longer feels represented but felt managed.

The moral paralysis of the state

A state that levies its administration above its citizens loses moral authority. He cannot demand solidarity if he does not exemplify it. Officials working under the same conditions as employees should also be treated similarly. But instead, a two-class system is created within society that divides those who carry the state and those whobe protected.

This split ultimately leads to the erosion of the community. Solidarity can only exist if it is bilateral. The state must not demand what it is not willing to give itself. But as long as civil servants enjoy privileges that evade any justification, there can be no question of fairness.

The price of injustice

The unequal treatment in civil service is more than a social nuisance – it is a democratic deficit. For it destroys faith in equality before the law and undermines trust in the legitimacy of state action. When the state equips its own elite with advantages, it signals to citizens that it is not about performance, but about belonging.

In this logic, people do not become participants, but subjects. The official embodies the monopoly of security, while the rest of the society bears the risk. This imbalance is slowly eating away through the institutions. The state becomes sluggish, self-contained and alienated – an apparatus that only preserves itself.

The return to equality

A just state must be measured by the equality of its citizens. As long as civil servant status cements privileges that cannot be rationally justified, it becomes an instrument of splitting. It’s time to end the civil service’s cult logic that hides behind tradition and alleged fulfillment of duties.

Same money for equal work, equal taxes for equal benefits – these are not revolutionary demands, but simple foundations of a fair community. As long as the administration sees itself as the caste of the untouchables, the state remains a system of inequality. When citizens lose faith in justice, in the end he loses what he is carrying – hisacceptance.