Only if you're done confusing civic duty with public employment. I tend to equate the word "civic" with "citizen." I mean, if
EVERY capable citizen who enjoyed the protections and freedoms accorded to him by society decided that teaching a classroom with thirty brats or manning a fire station or joining the military is a duty he has to the commonweal, then I'd be all for it. I would even let the Donald Trumps drive the fire truck and put the little Ivankas in charge of a squad of Marines in Afghanistan. Since that's not likely to happen because many people are too busy making money and view their civic duty as extending no further than the taxes they pay, I'm fine with just hiring people to perform these services. Personally, I don't think too many people go into something like teaching at a public school for the money anyway. If they do, they probably don't last long. And if you look at a jurisdiction where public-sector unions wield little influence, they definitely don't. Here in Mississippi, the base salary for a teacher with a master's degree is about $34,000 a year. A doctorate gets an addition two grand. Whoopee. Policemen start at about thirty grand as well, which is fat city compared to what they made a few years ago. I don't know too many Donald Trumps who would be willing to potentially forfeit their lives for thirty grand. Do you?