My experience (and I'm not young) agrees with yours. There's been an enormous expansion of bureaucracy, partly because there's just a lot of professional/managerial caste people now and that's what they do. That has brought a huge focus on rules for every possible contingency, and on control.
I almost think that there's getting to be two types of people (a generalization of course): one whose experience is shaped by life in large organizations, whether in front of a computer or in a stock room: and another type whose experience is not.
The other thing is that the part of the economy that isn't financialized mostly runs on extracting money from ordinary people in every possible way, including unnecessary repairs.
Good points.
My experience (and I'm not young) agrees with yours. There's been an enormous expansion of bureaucracy, partly because there's just a lot of professional/managerial caste people now and that's what they do. That has brought a huge focus on rules for every possible contingency, and on control.
I almost think that there's getting to be two types of people (a generalization of course): one whose experience is shaped by life in large organizations, whether in front of a computer or in a stock room: and another type whose experience is not.
The other thing is that the part of the economy that isn't financialized mostly runs on extracting money from ordinary people in every possible way, including unnecessary repairs.