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At which point you're no longer able to bury your head in the sand?
by fishnchips 2y ago
At which point you're no longer able to bury your head in the sand?
- debacle 2y ago[flagged]
- jf 2y agoThen why are you complaining in the comments?
- wavefunction 2y agovacuous platitudes from the stagnance of swamps
- cmorgan31 2y agoYou have a stance that would be unfair to ask you to explain via HN. Instead I’ll just ask, what’s a good starting point for understanding why you think the government needs to be unraveled? Libertarianism or something akin to anarcho-capitalism?
- debacle 2y agoI would say with regards to bureaucracy, no one has put it more succinctly than Trotsky, though complaints about the bureaucracy harken back to the Ancient Greeks. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Revolution_Betrayed https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Revolution_Betrayed I have met many, many politicians in my day. 95% of them are feckless, spineless, covetous cretins. But the bureaucrats are worse.
- layer8 2y agoIs that from personal experience?
- int_19h 2y agoHow does 18F fit your definition of "bureaucracy", though?
- academia_hack 2y agoDo you think there is a role for the federal government to employ engineers for any purpose? 18F was a general purpose engineering group that built software for many agencies instead of having those agencies pay vast amounts of money to Deloitte/Accenture/Booz Allen etc for a worse quality product.
- goatlover 2y agoWhy do we need to do this? Let me ask it another way, do you think Russia and China are happy with cutting the fed bureaucracy to the bone? Or just the Heritage Foundation?