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How did they even run government so "efficiently" before computers?

• monero-xmr 2y ago
  The government barely existed in the US before the 20th century. When a war happened, yes. But otherwise it was mostly inconsequential
  • nativeit 2y ago
    Hasn't it generally grown with the rest of the population? I think it existed in roughly the same proportion as the rest of society.
    • nickff 2y ago
      Most of the federal budget is wealth transfers from income earners to the poor and elderly; these were not federal functions until the 20th century. The US federal government spends didn’t have a standing army until well after the founding.
• grandempire 2y ago
  Running organizations is more about people making decisions than it is rows in a database. Tasks just take longer. Leaders respond by doing fewer of them (high impact focus), or do more planning, etc.