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At this point I'm just waiting for the country to collapse under bureaucracy.
by mshake2 4y ago
At this point I'm just waiting for the country to collapse under bureaucracy.
- kylehotchkiss 4y agoIt's not that USA is doing incredibly well with bureaucracy, it's that everybody else is doing worse for one reason or another
- wongarsu 4y agoI don't see much evidence that the US is the best functioning country around. It has a great geographic position and managed to get a great economy (in no small part due to said geographic advantages in WWI and WWII), but in measures that involve the government providing good services the US isn't doing any better than other developed countries.
- gnarbarian 4y agoin fact we're doing far worse on many fronts. we spent more per student than almost any other first world nation but we place dead last in outcomes.
- guhidalg 4y agoView it from the other side: even with this much dysfunction, things work most of the time and when they fail they are recoverable. There's no motivation to improve until something fails hard enough. If no one crashes as a result of this METAR outage, I predict nothing will change.
- dgfitz 4y agoDefine “work” if you don’t mind. There’s currently a power play going on about the national debt, wealth inequality is bad and getting worse, tax money gets wasted like it’s going out of style, social security isn’t and has never been solvent, the bigger government gets the more abstracted away from real people it becomes, and we all just stick our heads in the sand and ignore it because there is nothing the common person can do to effect change. Don’t tell me “go vote” because I do and it does fuck all nothing to change anything. People adapt and say “meh it’s working well enough” because they don’t have a sane alternative.
- gnarbarian 4y agobureaucracy is a form of entropy. it will grow in any organization until it is outcompeted, a catastrophe occurs, or it collapses.
- geepound 4y ago[dead]