Comments by "Winnetou17" (@Winnetou17) on "Your Job Achieves Nothing... (probably) - How Money Works" video.

  1.  @spuriouseffect  Sorry, you keep confusing government or state owned with beaurocracy. And think that private = beaurocracy free. Which is totally wrong. They are very different things. At a very basic level, having beaurocracy is having written papers about rules and agreements. Any kind of contract, if it's written - BAM there you go, beaurocracy. Does your fancy Sweden have nothing but verbal agreements between all the companies ? I seriously doubt it. Beaurocracy is often seen as negative when it's done inefficient, which is very easy to do. The goal of beaurocracy is to have everything stated and noted, so everything can be tracked and everybody can know and check the current or past rules and agreements & their states at a given time. With a well-constructed beaurocracy, nobody can say "I don't know what I have to do, what are my responsabilities" or "I don't know if I'm allowed to do that" or "I don't know who made that or took that decision" and so on. Having that idea in mind, simple people think then that everything have to be written and whenever something new comes, one or more rules are created, without having regard of the existing rules and the need to have the shortest, most efficient list of rules. Cases where beaurocracy foster corruption and nepotism are cases where people are using or actively trying to create a very heavy beaurocracy, where it's impossible to track all the things so they can benefit from that. But that's not the idea of beaurocracy that's wrong, that's the fault of the people who created or let the system get into that state. It's like saying that houses are useless - they break all the time, you need a lot of time and money for all the repairs, in winter you're cold, in summer you're sweating buckets, insects can fly inside, the walls get moldy etc etc, so you conclude that houses suck, and everybody should move into caves. Well, that's not the idea of having a house that's to blame here, it's how that house in particular what was wrong - it should have been built better.
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