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> The problem isn't necessarily the need for permission, it is excessive bureaucracy. Certain checks just need time. A lack of qualified experts who are able t
by slightwinder 1y ago
> The problem isn't necessarily the need for permission, it is excessive bureaucracy.
Certain checks just need time. A lack of qualified experts who are able to evaluation the situation for a permission is in such a case more likely than excessive bureaucracy.
> If I want to build and sell houses, I should be able to do it, but it shouldn't take going to 10 government offices, filling out 50 forms and waiting a year for someone to give me a permit. And then, once I have built it, it shouldn't take another year for someone to check I did it correctly.
That's how you end up with deathtraps who are poisoning their resident and folding down in themselves on the next earthquake or some strong wind.
- Arch-TK 1y agoA lack of qualified experts is normally just mismanagement of resources/incentives. Not sure how it requires 50 forms and 10 different physical offices to avoid deathtraps, that's kind of the situation in Poland (my home country) and the UK (where I live) has equivalent build quality with a lot less bureaucracy.
- potato3732842 1y agoI hate this sort of surface level analysis. Why do we need experts? Because the bureaucracy demands it. One should, in a novel situation, be able to just get a local university professor with relevant experience and an engineer to say "here's how we're gonna build it and in our professional experience we think it'll be fine. Why does the bureaucracy even demand it? Lord f-ing knows if someone tries to sue them over a harm it'll be deflected because "we're government, you can't sue us over that".