"automated virtual bureaucracy" Oh boy you hit the nail so hard on the head that my spine is still tingling. In the past 15 years of my career writing busines

"automated virtual bureaucracy" Oh boy you hit the nail so hard on the head that my spine is still tingling. In the past 15 years of my career writing business applications, websites etc. I always had this nagging doubt that this is just me being a very active part in building moloch, adding to all the bureaucracy instead of reducing/simplifying it. Simply because wherever we built something to make things more efficient/easier, those gains are usually swallowed and overshadowed by the demand for more complexity that arises from latent potential that has been opened up. "we've made taxes easy!" "...could you also make tax evasion easy?" "yes, but it would be more complicated" "More complicated than before you were there?" This is just an made-up example but that's how it so often goes and it really makes it feel like I should have become a hermit and wrote indie-games while living on cupnoodles instead.