Incompetence is just a fact of life, not a moral failure.

If you hire incompetent people, you can't reasonably expect them to do their jobs properly. You may save some money and avoid some inconvenience that way, but you may also have to face crises that would have been avoidable. Alternatively, you can spend more money proactively and hire more competent people. Either way, taxpayers will pay the price.

Who else would be paying for it…? Genuinely, if a government entity has costs (even costs incurred by their own foolishness), who else should pay for it? Are you suggesting the councillors/admin staff should pay for it out of pocket? What other entity works like that?

Yes, a county in the south Texas desert with fewer residents than a mid-size office park should just up and fire the one person in the county who could kind of do the job and was willing to do so each year for probably what a FAANG senior staff engineer makes each month.

This county, by the way, was bankrupted from having to deal with the corpses of dead migrants who were desperate enough to try to sneak in through it.

Instead the citizens will pay for their fuckup. Sucks, doesn't it?

Maybe /this/ is the real web3.