Comment by nonrandomstring

2 days ago

> It’s deliberate inefficiency.

Inefficiency is a useful property of many systems [0,1]. Current cultural obsessions around the word are a burden and mistake, and the word "efficiency" now feels rather overload with right-wing connotations.

[0] https://cybershow.uk/blog/posts/efficiency/

[1] https://cybershow.uk/blog/posts/cash2/

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a-saleh  2 days ago

I have strong feeling that in the past 50 or so years, we often have traded resiliency for efficiency. I think we might have gone too far.

That doesn't mean that being deliberately inefficient will improve resiliency. Also, some of the deliberate inefficiency (i.e. looking at weird thing us healthcae/health-insurance system has going on) is more ... extractive? That sounds like the word I am looking for.