Kafkaesque bureaucracy from both inside and outside. A vast coordination-failure surface binding the helpless to the unable-to-help. Regret-only API. No redressal or reversal. One dystopian asymptote that’s within adjacent possible reach.
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We’re all increasingly bound by technosocial contracts with too-big-to-fail/too-big-to-work systems that even insiders can’t grok or govern or destroy, and comfort ourselves with the fiction that insiders have agency but choose not to help.
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had some luck with California’s food assitance programs, but the anecdotes are... makes me wary to try to follow in his footsteps. So much Seeing Like a State.
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