Maybe I come into this with some bias because I don't have the highest opinion of "futurists" but I find it really difficult to engage with this article. Firstl

Maybe I come into this with some bias because I don't have the highest opinion of "futurists" but I find it really difficult to engage with this article. Firstly, it's a fairly contentious to claim that bureaucracy was the cause of the industrial revolution rather than simply something that came along as the result of massive increases in productivity. I think it's also really just weird to claim that bureaucracy has increased in the last 10 years. Let's throw away the twitter poll firstly because sampling, secondly let's acknowledge that people's perception in the change in levels of bureaucracy is probably unreliable, and thirdly 10 years isn't a long term trend. If the author wants to see some takes on bureaucracy in the future I'd recommend Gilliam's Brazil for example. There's lots of interesting ways to take this topic that the author just doesn't address. What if bureaucracy is the result of scale, and scale is the result of population, and the world's population is going to peak pretty soon? Does bureaucracy reverse with population decline? It would make intuitive sense I guess.