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No, don’t steal this idea. It has sprung forth from the head of a bureaucrat and will lead to externalities like the one mentioned about carpooling. Instead, st
by the_optimist 3y ago
No, don’t steal this idea. It has sprung forth from the head of a bureaucrat and will lead to externalities like the one mentioned about carpooling. Instead, steal this idea: Stop investing in optimized bureaucracy. It is ever so fragile, eternal, and unforgiving. It creates expensive administrative jobs that waste lives and resources. Invest in a philosophy of creating innovative improvements which can survive in a marketplace of ongoing change and adaptation.
- jimjimjim 3y agoBureaucracy is just rules. most rules are there to prevent the harm to other members of society. Unless you own all the land and build all the roads you are NOT allowed to do whatever you want if the society that provides the land and roads doesn't want you to.
- gitgud 3y agoTrue, optimising rules doesn’t always make things fairer or better… But it doesn’t hurt to revisit old rules, especially when circumstances like cars have changed so much
- atoav 3y agoMaybe you grew up as a single kid, but if you take part in a society bureaucracy takes the role of managing the flow, conflicts and frictions between the different interests. What is the alternative? The right of the stronger? Warfare? How "well" the private market solves certain problems can be observed in every nation that privatized parts of their former crown jewels. If there was evidence rhat "the market" did it better, I'd be all for it. But we have ample evidence for the opposite.