“The Empire State Building was built in 13 months, nearly 100 years ago. Today, you couldn’t get the permit in 13 months.”
I heard somebody (Jeff Booth?) point this out on a podcast yesterday. ...
The permit problem is real, but I think the deeper version is: 13 months to build the Empire State Building, and then the next 90 years slowly building the systems that make it impossible to do that again.
The dysfunction isn't a bug in the bureaucracy. It's the cumulative output of everyone optimizing locally for risk reduction at every node. Each rule made sense when someone proposed it. The aggregate is what no one voted for.
The dysfunction isn't a bug in the bureaucracy. It's the cumulative output of everyone optimizing locally for risk reduction at every node. Each rule made sense when someone proposed it. The aggregate is what no one voted for.