These jons are largely welfare jobs. Its a way to give people who are idiots in special protected groups welfare claiming its pay for doing work.
Look at who makes up these govt welfare jobs around you.
They are mostly on the lower end of the Bell Curve. Government-sponsored dunces who’d otherwise be on welfare - if that hadn’t run out already.
I’m going to disagree with your assessment. I’m a federal employee—I’ve worked at my agency for 27 years. I graduated at the top of my class in high school and college (University of CA and Georgetown). I hire smart people like me (or try to). The feds of 2020 are not the same feds of 1960-70…we are more educated and we manage the contractors mostly—that said, this SSA story is dismaying.