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I don't anything that comes out of the American political process could be called "designed". Nor do I think the Congressman have some malicious intent to grab

I don't anything that comes out of the American political process could be called "designed". Nor do I think the Congressman have some malicious intent to grab power. Rather their is a selection effect whereby people who are over optimistic about the ability of government to solve problems end up in positions of power.

DanielBMarkham 17y ago
"Design" -- an underlying formula or pattern. How could 2000 pages not have some sort of design? Have you seen the diagrams of all the things the bill creates? I'll grant you that perhaps for many members they are so inept as to have this design be implied instead of explicit, that doesn't make the underlying pattern go away. This is like the discussions we have with programmers who say they have no time for design. Look - you can't code without designing. The question is whether you're upfront about it, haphazard about it, or whatever. You can't have 2000 pages of law without implementing some kind of design, no matter how you went about getting it.