> So which costs have risen out of proportion to the point that none of that is possible today. Basically all of them. https://slatestarcodex.com/2017/02/09/c

> So which costs have risen out of proportion to the point that none of that is possible today. Basically all of them. https://slatestarcodex.com/2017/02/09/considerations-on-cost-disease/ https://slatestarcodex.com/2017/02/09/considerations-on-cost... Which I think is partially due to institutions becoming less efficient with time as more organizational scar tissue accumulates (certainly seen a lot of this at the companies I've worked for). Plus gov departments tend to accumulate extra low-return responsibilities from politician gimmicks (the mismatch between what sounds good in a headline and whats cost effective). Which in turn I think comes from scope insensitivity, we just aren't good at understanding scale and underestimate defuse costs.