Or minutes, seconds. Simple example. Bank transfers. Take a few days. People actually are involved to push a freaking button in the US. Takes <1s in reality.

Or minutes, seconds. Simple example. Bank transfers. Take a few days. People actually are involved to push a freaking button in the US. Takes <1s in reality. Takes <1s in Germany because it's enforced by law that operations like that cannot be artificially made longer. Here's another. Getting a work visa to the USA. Takes about 6 month, average. There is no background check or what not. Nothing more than a 5 minutes interview (non-exagerated - sometimes it's in fact faster) with a real person and someone to push the print button in the automated printing facility. 5 minutes, made into 6 month... The examples are countless.