Beware the bureaucracies

The idea that a welfare system that keeps people healthy and makes sure everyone is literate, ruins economies by making people lazy and not want to work is total bullshit! People need to do something in their lives that defines them and fulfills them, so people will continue to work in a welfare State. In fact, once free form anxiety and worry over getting sick and how to get medical care or over how to pay for the kids' college, people tend to work even harder and better and achieve more. 

 What really makes people not want to work or aspire to achieving great things within the economic system is the bureaucracy that savagely attacks and destroys private enterprise and aspirations wherever it sees it. It does so to keep power concentrated within it and keep the citizenry constantly seeking the good will of the bureaucracy. 

 Figure-head military or political leaders are not the real dictators, civil servants and the structure they serve and perpetuate, those are the real dictators. They are not elected, have a lot of power and are in the job for the duration of their working lives, i.e. until retirement. 

 Private enterprise is like the precious topsoil rich in life giving nutrients, it's a delicate layer that can be washed away by the Tsunami of bureaucracy and the sheer and utter waste that bureaucracy leaves in its wake. There is a myth propagated by Mandarins across the globe, by the petty paper-shufflers, that they alone hold the key to moving things along in the public sphere and within the economy, that we somehow need them to safeguard the system that defines our civilization. Utter nonsense, we are better off without them. So, I call on all free people everywhere to abolish the scourge of efficiency and progress, to abolish the bureaucracy, to make sure that government's role is not to 'run things' but is only limited to overseeing the running of things.

 The bureaucracy has long been a gateway for the moneyed elite in developing countries, a means through which they 'legally' usurp the wealth and resources of an entire nation. Such moneyed elite have used their money to gain unprecedented access to the bureaucracy and implant agents in top posts that serve their interests. Even in more developed countries this can be clear to see. 

 Often, the bureaucracy inexplicably shows favor to one at the expense of many others when choosing a contractor for a project. Money, often dirty money, lubricates the gears and levers of the bureaucratic machinery across the globe, the only difference between one country and another is the degree to which corruption has spread and become an acceptable part of doing business with the public sector.

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