I can't find it now, but I once read a fascinating history of train braking in the US. Before modern air brakes became mandatory, trains had brake men who had t

I can't find it now, but I once read a fascinating history of train braking in the US. Before modern air brakes became mandatory, trains had brake men who had to jump from on car to the other in order to fasten brakes. That had a high risk of the brake operator fallng off the moving train - and the whole train becoming uncontrollable. It was an extremely dangerous job and at the time train companies thought it would be too costly to change the system, so they resisted change. > Bureaucracy is basically formalizing social interactions for a specific topic. One could even say that bureaucracy is one form of organized collective action. Which in general is quite necessary for humans as a social species.