Oddbean new post about login | logout That gets a big yikes from me 😬
The idea that none of those things can be ran more efficiently is batshit crazy and tells me you've never interacted with the administrative state.
Bureaucracy is inherently inefficient. But the alternative to some of these more critical welfare programs is people dying poor, sick and hungry. The trade off is that stark. What gets me about this argument is that those that advocate against these programs seem ok with those consequences because it would prevent abuse by a minority of bad actors (which every society has)
The projection is unreal.
I don’t know what you mean. Can you try to be more specific?