Sure, as a libertarian I'm well read on the failings of bureaucracy. As I said, the deep mistake here is letting our frustrations with bureaucratic authoritarianism be pinned on the bureaucratic aspect rather than on the authoritarian aspect. We're all acquainted with being on the wrong personal side of a committee member who is then able to vindictively hold up your application. Getting rid of the bureaucracy in favor of autocratic authoritarianism just drops the pretense of impartiality.
And sure, the resources spent on make-work bureaucracy running would be better used elsewhere, even if it was just paying people to walk through their local parks and pick up litter. But we're pretty bad at resource allocation, especially resources from that centralized fountain of new money that seems to be necessary due to Gresham's law. So make-work paper pushing is still better than just giving those resources to asset holders via banks bidding up the everything bubble. Given that those resources are going to be somewhat wasted somehow, the authoritarianism seems like the more important part to be focusing on.
(as for the numbers from the Ministry of LLM Slop, understanding is harder than generation, so I don't see the point of trying to scrutinize them rather than doing a good faith analysis to begin with)
And sure, the resources spent on make-work bureaucracy running would be better used elsewhere, even if it was just paying people to walk through their local parks and pick up litter. But we're pretty bad at resource allocation, especially resources from that centralized fountain of new money that seems to be necessary due to Gresham's law. So make-work paper pushing is still better than just giving those resources to asset holders via banks bidding up the everything bubble. Given that those resources are going to be somewhat wasted somehow, the authoritarianism seems like the more important part to be focusing on.
(as for the numbers from the Ministry of LLM Slop, understanding is harder than generation, so I don't see the point of trying to scrutinize them rather than doing a good faith analysis to begin with)