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> functioning bureaucracy Isn't that an oxymoron?

• cco 8y ago
  In case you aren't joking, it isn't at all. A highly functional bureaucracy allows a state to leverage scale in a way that less sophisticated governments just can't do. Infrastructure, military, R&D, and trade are all things that are hugely dependent upon a functioning bureaucratic state and crumble in the face of a non-functioning state.