on government micro-management
Mar. 26th, 2008 05:10 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
acroyearRobert Fripp's Diary for Wednesday, 12th March 2008:
I also think there's a sense of conditioning to subsume to the bureaucracy that's been a part of their economic culture for millenia. Their leaders and dynasties may have changed continually, but their bureaucracy has remained intact. Only the bodies that fill it have changed.
The increasing governmental micro-management of macro-social (economic & political) processes, whether an outcome of increasing control by a centralised & unelected bureaucracy in Brussels and/or a development of Mr. Blair’s decade in power and/or Mr. Brown’s Presbyterian instincts, leads to much the same: an inability for undertakings to develop organically & proceed creatively. In the UK, two macro-concerns currently being debated & subject to micro-management & Initiativitis are Education & Health. Our Landlord, Butcher Fry, is the subject of regular inspections directed towards controlling his business as Village Store & Post Office, to such an extent that it prejudices his operation. Tesco have sufficient economies of scale to deal with government’s interest; Broad Chalke Village Store does not.Actually, I think China is an exception there. I see their economy rapidly growing because they have the resources (in cheap personnel) to have multitudes of companies all attempting to do the same thing and don't mind the failures when they happen (a lesson learned from our golden ages of start-ups), OR they have one government bureaucrat in place in the various firms to monitor and regulate all the companies continually rather than have them try business as usual until the great inspection. In both cases, cheap educated labor seems to work in their advantage. But that's just my suspicion; I haven't read up on their situation nearly enough.
David & Robert wonder whether the BRICs (the rapid-growth countries Brazil, Russia, India & China) suffer the same degree of operating-control on exceptionally small matters. Actually, we don’t wonder at all: if enterprises in those 4 economies were subject to micro-management, the economies would not be rapidly growing.
I also think there's a sense of conditioning to subsume to the bureaucracy that's been a part of their economic culture for millenia. Their leaders and dynasties may have changed continually, but their bureaucracy has remained intact. Only the bodies that fill it have changed.
