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#337 – Destiny: Politics, Free Speech, Controversy, Sex, War, and Relationships

Lex Fridman Podcast

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The Inefficiencies of Bureaucracy at Scale

Bureaucracy is necessary because it's coordinating all of the underlying things in order to create something that's greater than the sum of its parts, right? The reason bureaucracy is used as a slur is that something about human nature leads to bureaucracy often growing indefinitely and becoming less and less efficient without a mechanism. capitalism puts a pressure on the bureaucracy not to grow too much because you want the bureaucracy to be useful but not large.

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