Reading Seeing Like A State so that I can emotionally accept that the bureaucratic machine eating away ever more chunks of reality is as old as humanity itself, and learn to channel my energy working around it instead of resisting it with full force.
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It all works pretty well until your society or organization falls below the Dunbar’s number. Anything more than this, and layers of abstraction become necessary.
Signed, every startup that used to swear they’d never go corporate.
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This is true.
I'm not saying states aren't an endemic scaling problem. More that we seemed to once have been below the prerequisite population density.
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Right, ‘civilization itself’ would be more accurate. Still, that’s still quite a chunk of time, and there’s little chance we’re going back to total Earth population in tens of millions people, so I might as well accept the rules of the game and move on.
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