There is a meme that the right wing have created about how they’re focus on having less ‘back office’ workers so then they can spend more money on the front line:

But here is the problem, there is a reason why such back office staff exist in the first place and if they’re not doing the paper work that the government demands when who does that paper work? is it the front line staff who now have to not only do their own work but also dedicate time that would have otherwise spend doing front line to work now spend that on doing what the back office staff would have done. Ok, let’s assume that won’t happy – then is the government going to change processes? front load investment into technology to make some of the reporting that the back office staff do obsolete?

The size of the public service comes as a consequence of the sort of policies that the government chooses to pursue – if the government insists on having a complex convoluted tax code then that requires an army of staff ranging from call centre to lawyers to compliance, auditing, dealing with people who owe money, prosecuting those who owe but money but refuse to come to some sort of payment plan etc. when compared to maybe a system where large numbers of tax credits/deductions are replaced in favour of a tax free threshold and a reduction in the number of brackets. I’ll be waiting to see what ends up happening.

Then there is the right wing media experiencing a decline in the number of visitors and viewers:

Although Kyle laments the fact that Facebook is deprioritising news and politics on the Meta platforms, personally I think it is the best thing that could happen – there are plenty of other places that people can hang out and discuss politics without Meta platforms being added to the mix. I think long term what Meta are trying to do is get back to their roots of being a social media platform and that in part means distancing the platform from being a hub for news and politics in favour of a place where people can hang out, share funny memes, photos, chat with friends and family, not to mention the fact that it means Meta isn’t having to spend large amounts of resources playing Whac-A-Mole with bad faith actors and overseas nongovernment actors wanting to use the Meta algorithm to spread misinformation nd disinformation.

If you want to see what the Meta vision for their platform is then look no further than Threads, the development of the Threads API and the work being done with third parties, NBA scores through Threads etc. Basically it is trying to be the opposite of what Twitter has turned into – a place where people want to hang out and chill rather than screaming and yelling at each other.