A coincidental convergence of recent tweets: we are wasting the surplus from technical and economic innovation on mandatory, soul-killing busywork. 1/https://twitter.com/literalbanana/status/981730992330174464 …
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Replying to @sonyasupposedly @sonyaellenmann
Say more? As in, this waste is driven by politics? Or, effectively-mandatory participation in politics is an example? (Both seem true) Or…
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@literalbanana Last year we fostered kids for 6 months. State bureaucracy was unimaginably bad. I was always filling out forms, sitting on the phone, emailing state reps. I looked at a graph of my consulting income ... pretty close to $0 for 6 months. Such value destruction.1 reply 0 retweets 3 likes
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...and even after 6 months of basically working-the-process full time, nothing got done.
It's a relative of anarcho-tyranny: there is a process for EVERYTHING, and yet the levers don't connect to ANYTHING.
File, escalate, appeal, appeal the appeal...yet nada.
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