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Eugene McCarthy said: "The only thing that saves us from the bureaucracy is inefficiency. An efficient bureaucracy is the greatest threat to liberty."



I've never understood this logic.

We fear bureaucracies, if they became efficient, would become efficiently brutal and callous. We don't want them to become good at being brutal and callous. Therefore we should fight against efficient bureaucracies in favor of brutal and callous inefficient bureaucracies. And if their inefficiencies make them seem brutal and callous, that's just all the evidence to know that making them more efficient would lead to even more brutality and callousness.


Eugene McCarthy didn't say ineffecient bureaucracy was brutal an callous. It's just annoying and maybe callous. That's the point. Also, um, you know who had an efficient bureaucracy, with computers and everything, in the 1930s? Yeah, --Godwin'd


Well, obviously. If bureaucracies could become efficient, then we'd have no reason for markets.




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