the internet has enabled a new kind of bureaucracy where we now engage with commerce by filling out paperwork ourselves rather than having vendors manage it the

the internet has enabled a new kind of bureaucracy where we now engage with commerce by filling out paperwork ourselves rather than having vendors manage it themselves. It used to be a business cost, now it's an externality. It reminds me of pollution - industrial processes that are "cheap" because no one is counting the damage done. Do you have more free time than your parents did when they were your age? I think our gains in "efficiency" are a shell game, that we're actually paying more to maintain an increasingly byzantine system