If the government requires you to visit an office, make a call, or fill in a form, they should be required to compensate you at minimum wage for the avg time to fill it in. Wages for paperwork. You may think—this would be prohibitively expensive! >$100B/yr But it already is!
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Paperwork is a negative externality that should be internalized: https://meaningness.com/metablog/post-apocalyptic-health-care …pic.twitter.com/PGHWVFOM5O
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Don’t disagree here, but particularly with companies, how would this be enforced/audited? There are a lot of time inefficiencies in the world which continue to exist because the externalities are never internalized by the service provider.
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I could see an audit org working for the government like health inspectors. But at large, the only apparent mechanism to me is competitors coming in who realize there are efficiency gains that can be had by automation of paperwork, less wasted time, etc.
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I don’t think this problem can be fixed by market processes (new entrants), for the reason summarized here. The post goes into more detail about this.pic.twitter.com/YSJoXtvnAF
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