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It's a great generality, but it's not only 100% correct, your example of bureaucracy PROVES it is correct. Those committees, reviews, and approval chains are j
by arcbyte 8y ago
It's a great generality, but it's not only 100% correct, your example of bureaucracy PROVES it is correct.
Those committees, reviews, and approval chains are just distributed responsibility mechanisms to remove the responsibility to think critically about the entire expenditure, which is Friedman's point.
10 people thinking about narrow, nonoverlapping aspects of a large thing will never be as effective as less people considering all aspects of that large thing.
- eastWestMath 8y agoJust because more than one person/group of people looks at something does not mean they are all looking at non-overlapping aspects of a large thing.
- pesmhey 8y agoTen functions performing narrow, non-overlapping aspects of a large program is pretty decent design, so that you can change/update/troubleshoot one function without affecting too much of your whole system. Your alternative has been tried and fails when you have to replace that all-considering function with another at the end of its life and the other one isn’t so good. It’s a less robust system. Bureaucracy isn’t inherently bad, it’s just like, a model of designing complex systems.