Thread by @wmnjoya

I will use this thread to explain the concept of "administrative bloat."

Administrative bloat is the employing of so many managers and supervisors, paying them excess salaries, while the people who do the actual work don't get employed or paid.

That is the government of Kenya.

https://twitter.com/drthuranira/status/1335089579808989185

Since the time of GoK's mother the colonial government, and its grandmother the British East Africa company, the role of the state is to control workers, control our work and its produce, and send it up the foodchain through chiefs, paramount chiefs all the way to London.

One of the cultural lies these parasistes have sold to us is that the only work that can be exploited is where there is a tangible product like tea or coffee. No. These exploit EVERYTHING, EVERYTHING. Health, education, faith, religion...EVERTYHING.

Elites are parasites. They can't work, won't work. How do they live, then? From taking away the work that we do. They use the state (especially weapons) to threaten us, and they get bureaucrats and managers to distract workers and push the loot up the gravy train.

That is why the less the elites work, the more bureaucrats the employ to protect them from direct contact with us "peasants." That's the function of civil servants. To steal our work on behalf of the elite, while conning us that we're working out of national duty.

The more educated the population, and the more we understand and refuse this exploitation, the more bureaucrats the elite need to hide the system but also protect themselves from us.

That's why there are more administrative jobs and no jobs for actual healthworkers who treat.

The worst part is that these civil servants know that they do no work but steal and organize us for better stealing. That's why they have so much madharau for healthcare workers. David Graeber summed it up in this formula: the more useful your work, the less you are paid for it.

But what is more insidiuous about civil servants is that they have an incentive to keep this predatory system going because they earn from it.

So why are healthworkers not being paid?

Because that reduces the money which bureaucrats can eat and send up the food chain.

We need to ask for the whole of M-Afya house to go home, and the money be paid to health workers. PR bureaucrats and paper pushers at M-Afya house do not treat us. The health professionals do.

If you know a GoK paper pusher, ask them why we pay them when doctors have no jobs.

And start from the PR fellow in charge of health. Doctors can tell us the same thing he says, with much better detail.

This is why I say that

1. GoK is a parasite. The only thing it does is steal. We can run our own society without it if we are determined to.

2. We need to make the political class irrelevant.

https://twitter.com/wmnjoya/status/1323137185646784513?s=20

3. We need to start thinking up of a new healthcare system outside GoK. Our own training, our own accreditation, our own clinics, with the political purpose of making GoK irrelevant. Like the Black Panthers did.

We can't keep persuading people with blocked ears to listen to us.
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