It's more like the cost of the political system we run. Yes, it's not the most streamlined, but it's stable. Quite a number of people yearn for the efficiency of a system under one will of an enlightened monarch. We have a bunch of examples, from Lycurgus and Cyrus back in the day to Mr Putin today; there is a cost to such a system, too.
[−]narnarpapadaddy · 2026-11-15 Sun 05:19 UTC ·
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It’s always entertaining to hear engineers ridicule inefficient government programs while simultaneously setting up a load balancer, backups, or a high-availability db cluster. Completely unable to generalize the lesson that redundancy and overhead aren’t necessarily bad, and that efficiency is in tension with other desirable attributes in every system, political, biological, computational, whatever.