There have long been plenty of games that use random drops - the aged but still very much active Team Fortress 2, for example. And yet people haven't been marching in the streets against the practice of buying and selling TF2 weapons and cosmetics for real money; perhaps because the transactions are not integral to playing the game and because the purchases are typically made from other players. Even more so with Overwatch - although the random drops are delivered as loot boxes (and actually called loot boxes, in case there's any doubt) in this case there is no trading mechanism between players, and the items acquired have no direct impact on gameplay. Perhaps the thing we dislike about loot boxes is not the randomness, or even the financial aspect; but the obligation to participate in these draws in order to actually play the full game.

They should have one that goes to 11.

We're concatenating all the different roles and responsibilities of councils here. It's not entirely fair to tar all of them with the same brush. Note that town councillors are not civil servants, but unpaid volunteers. Admittedly, they get expenses for their work, but essentially they are acting in person, not as employees. Civil servants by contrast are employees who work for central government, not local. And town councils are not usually responsible for waste collection or planning, either.

Perhaps something like BuddyBackup? http://www.databarracks.com/buddybackup/ Anyone tried it?