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Even without central planning, social security requires administration, auditing etc. The Social Security Administration alone has 57,000 employees.
by argumentum 14y ago
Even without central planning, social security requires administration, auditing etc. The Social Security Administration alone has 57,000 employees.
- kaonashi 14y agoThe point was that they're not planning or interfering with production and consumption, merely passing along financing.
- argumentum 14y agoBut they exist, and take a salary and benefits, do they not?
- kaonashi 14y agoYes, there is going to be some overhead in administering most anything, I'm not sure I see the point you are trying to make.
- argumentum 14y agoThat's exactly the point. Since there is always going to be overhead to administer anything, does it not make sense to have less things to be administered?
- kaonashi 14y agoIf you're making an efficiency argument, then it really depends on the details. You could conceivably have 10 programs that are horribly mismanaged, and 100 that are well-run.
- argumentum 14y agoThe more programs you have, the more you have to manage the managing of programs, making it less likely that any one program will be well-managed.
- kaonashi 14y agoSometimes the virtues of consolidating purposes are outdone by the virtues of redundancy. A single program is a single point of failure.