arbitrariness breeds distrust, granting individual discretion to low-level functionaries breeds corruption
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the mark of a healthy (mature--emerging is a different story) state is one that can be relied on to do what it says, to uphold its bargains
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it should be predictable to foster stability. otherwise people start hedging in ways that would otherwise be pathological
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the fundamental trade-off with bureaucracy is procedure (inflexible but predictable) vs. judgement (flexible but uncertain)
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(this, incidentally, is what makes judges special, and why things like mandatory sentencing and such operate at cross-purposes: we...
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...*specifically* empower them to render judgement and have entire cultures built around the fact of the gravity of their decisions)
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the ideal of bureaucracy is to excise individual discretion completely, to have a pure system immune to bribery (because why would you...
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...bribe them if they can't do anything for you), one where people get exactly what they should expect our based on what they put in
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it's an ideal of course, bureaucracies fail spectacularly on special cases, which causes them to add more procedure as they encounter them
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so they can appear uncaring (because they are) and bloat to monstrous sizes absent constant aggressive refactoring
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I would not call USG a healthy state (though it's far from african dictatorship levels let's be real), and making it into one would be a...
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...massive undertaking. but if one were to attempt, approach I'd take is: scope down globally but up locally, simplify, and be *reliable*
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and accelerationists should be cheering right now, this is the sort of stuff that gets people looking for increasingly unusual alternatives
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