The amout of time stolen from people by making them wait in stupid long lines in gov buildings to get random papers someone invented to make life more misarable should be considered crime against humanity.
Given all the flexing about fake numbers like gdp one would think someone would calculate the productivity loss of thousands of people waiting needelessely for hours for things noone asked for
Freedom is acquired by conquest, not by gift. It must be pursued constantly and responsibly. Freedom is not an ideal located outside of man; nor is it an idea which becomes myth. It is rather the indispensable condition for the quest for human completion.”
— Paulo Freire, Pedagogy of the Oppressed
We’re creating a generation of psychological cripples—people who are practiced at reading social cues and adjusting their thoughts accordingly, but who have never learned to form independent judgments. People who mistake consensus for truth and popularity for virtue. People who have been so thoroughly trained to avoid wrong-think that they’ve either lost—or never developed—the capacity for original thought entirely.