Most banking, regulatory, and tax filings I do online now take significantly longer in terms of actual human hours to complete than if they had simply been done on paper. The promise of the "paperless office" was that things would go faster, and in fact we just made them slower.
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This should be deeply embarrassing for everyone, because most of these things computers could do automatically. Instead, we have literally arrived at a place where a physical stamp would be faster because the "web form" nonsense people use often doesn't even support paste.
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Replying to @cmuratori
I mean I'm pretty sure the paperless office bullshit is just an excuse to cut the number of workers in half and let the machines do it (?)
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Replying to @cuwumgambit
Give the web a few more years and they'll have to hire ten times as many workers as before just to do anything at all.
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