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Imagine if you had to print a paper form and mail or deliver it to the local Government for even the simplest of administrative tasks. Because that is life in
by eertami 6y ago
Imagine if you had to print a paper form and mail or deliver it to the local Government for even the simplest of administrative tasks.
Because that is life in Switzerland.
- jeffrallen 6y agoWell yes, but lots of Switzerland is rural, and dropping off paperwork is no more bother than picking up a loaf of bread. Lots of us like seeing our neighbor, who happens to also be our greffe communal.
- Ericson2314 6y agoNo one is saying you can't see your neighbor if you don't have errands to run.
- etiam 6y agoExactly, no one is saying you can't see your neighbor if you don't have errands to run. But the fact is you won't be doing that anywhere near as much if the way of doing the errands works against seeing people as if it works for. Defaults matter, a lot.
- Ericson2314 6y agoI agree that spontaneous interactions are important, but we get spontaneous interactions via density, whether it's tiny but compact towns (walled villages, even) or large cities. Busywork and drugery should not be the foundation of social interaction. Period.
- nixass 6y agoGermany is hardly, if at all, better. For anything related to banking, insurances, taxes, rent, healthcare.. I have tons of papers
- tsbinz 6y agoI extended the deadline for my 2020 tax declaration today (Zurich). I did so by scanning a QR code, entering my email address for the confirmation, and clicking send.
- eertami 6y agoAnecdotal, but in SG I recently had to submit ~20 pages of documentation for a permit. Obviously I don't have a printer so this was annoying in itself. Once I took those printed pages to the Rathaus they just scanned all the documents anyway. Maybe ZH does things better, but I still feel like it's a shame there is not more standardisation. I understand why politically this is difficult though with the independence of the cantons.