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The bureaucracy typically help business when it works. It’s not meant to be directed by day-to-day driven politicians or exposed to lobbyism. It’s supposed to b
by eksemplar 9y ago
The bureaucracy typically help business when it works. It’s not meant to be directed by day-to-day driven politicians or exposed to lobbyism. It’s supposed to be a safety net to make sure society keeps on track as it speeds along.
That’s what it is in China, with the added benefit of it actually supporting their local and hindering foreign businesses.
In a lot of areas it’s us in the west who are stuck behind a hopelessly inefficient bureaucracy, but on the upside, you’re less likely to drop through a poorly constructed escalator or have your local lake filled with industrial waste (well, unless you’re American I guess).
- seanmcdirmid 9y agoOur local lakes are still pretty clean, Trump hasn’t dismantled the EPA (yet). Western bureaucracy differs from Chinese bureaucracy in that it is more deterministic, the rules are more obvious and more fairly enforced. In China, there is a huge difference based on your guanxi level. I wouldn’t trade our system for theirs.
- justicezyx 9y agoAccording to Trump, Hillary escaped jail time because "Guanxi", or whatever equivalent things to guanxi.
- seanmcdirmid 9y agoYa, Trump also said Obama was born in Kenya and that he’d release his tax returns eventually.