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Tech bros keep pretending like "bureaucracy" is only present because of government, when the real thing that causes bureaucracy is means testing.
Privatized healthcare is the best example of this. It is an endless sea of bureaucracy because the system will break its own back rather than admit you "need" certain medical procedures enough to get them for free.
There was basically no bureaucracy with distribution of COVID vaccines in comparison. I remember in Israel (yeah yeah I know) they were literally just yelling at people on the streets "Hey you, wanna get vaccinated?" and tadaaah, results.
when the real thing that causes bureaucracy is means testing
The real thing that causes bureaucracy is the Principle-Agent problem. How do principles demand labor from agents at a cost less expensive than doing the work themselves? They need a system to efficiently monitor and evaluate the work performed by their agents prior to release of payment. So they invent a bureaucracy.
There was basically no bureaucracy with distribution of COVID vaccines in comparison.
There was absolutely a bureaucracy involved in distribution of COVID vaccines. Agents promising to collect and distribute tests and jabs in exchange for fees needed to interface with the agencies warehousing the vaccine materials and prove out that shots were going into the arms of US residents in a timely manner. There was a plethora of licensing and monitoring and auditing that occurred around the production, distribution, and payment for services rendered.
But because vaccinations have a very inelastic demand, people had a high propensity to receive the initial jabs and virtually no propensity to get subsequent jabs. This is starkly different from demand for food or housing or straight cash, wherein any individual participant will happily consume more given the opportunity and capping per-unit distribution makes a lot more sense.
This is starkly different from demand for food or housing or straight cash, wherein any individual participant will happily consume more given the opportunity and capping per-unit distribution makes a lot more sense.
I don't know that I would necessarily want to consume substantially more food, or housing that what I do right now. What I have with those seems like the most optimal for me to be able to manage, tbh.
But I do wish that I was able to get Covid Boosters, cause I went to my GP & they told me they outright didn't have any that they could give.
Tech bros keep pretending like "bureaucracy" is only present because of government, when the real thing that causes bureaucracy is means testing.
Privatized healthcare is the best example of this. It is an endless sea of bureaucracy because the system will break its own back rather than admit you "need" certain medical procedures enough to get them for free.
There was basically no bureaucracy with distribution of COVID vaccines in comparison. I remember in Israel (yeah yeah I know) they were literally just yelling at people on the streets "Hey you, wanna get vaccinated?" and tadaaah, results.
The real thing that causes bureaucracy is the Principle-Agent problem. How do principles demand labor from agents at a cost less expensive than doing the work themselves? They need a system to efficiently monitor and evaluate the work performed by their agents prior to release of payment. So they invent a bureaucracy.
There was absolutely a bureaucracy involved in distribution of COVID vaccines. Agents promising to collect and distribute tests and jabs in exchange for fees needed to interface with the agencies warehousing the vaccine materials and prove out that shots were going into the arms of US residents in a timely manner. There was a plethora of licensing and monitoring and auditing that occurred around the production, distribution, and payment for services rendered.
But because vaccinations have a very inelastic demand, people had a high propensity to receive the initial jabs and virtually no propensity to get subsequent jabs. This is starkly different from demand for food or housing or straight cash, wherein any individual participant will happily consume more given the opportunity and capping per-unit distribution makes a lot more sense.
I don't know that I would necessarily want to consume substantially more food, or housing that what I do right now. What I have with those seems like the most optimal for me to be able to manage, tbh.
But I do wish that I was able to get Covid Boosters, cause I went to my GP & they told me they outright didn't have any that they could give.