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James R. Green's avatar

As wasteful as they are and as poetically as you remind us, I think, cynically, that perhaps they do serve a purpose, keeping the "system" stable with the current elites on top of it:

"The “waste” we see today is, for those within our regime, but the cost of solving the “alignment” problem of humans. Everyone with ability or wealth has to be bought off to keep them within the system, and yes, even it means creating a hundred thousand well-paid gender studies commissars or more generals than we’ve ever had in a real war, well, it’s just the cost of keeping them aligned with the direction of the rest of the regime. The system evolves layers of garbage wastefulness as a self-defensive measure against too much talent being aimless, and perhaps, interested in alternatives. Even the foreign waste serves the same purpose, keeping foreign regimes like those in Brussels, aligned to U.S. deep state values by making their elites align themselves with ours."

https://grainofwheat.substack.com/p/have-pity-on-the-poor-old-bureaucrat?r=1mcpmt

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Daymon Pascual's avatar

Really well written! I like the point about Public vs. Private salaries and how hard that is for private sector to complete and of course talent is sucked away from the private sector and into the functionaries positions. Thanks, I feel smarter every time I read your stuff and that's worth the price of admission.

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