Has there ever been a peaceful transition from a reset? Wasn't this what DOGE was meant to fix? Cutting the fat.

This screams Productivity Paradox - more regulations but less growth. Are we just creating BS jobs to justify bureaucracy?

There's an interesting in phenomenon in academia---for economics definitely, and likely for other fields---where the length and quantity of papers has grown substantially to the point that no one really reads them carefully anymore, except maybe just the referees and editors (if that).

It's usually blamed on the ease of word processing and statistical programming technology. It's just way easier to spam more stuff into the text than before.

I wonder if the same is going on with respect to legislation.

Producing words has become cheaper than reading and interpreting them. We need some sort of mechanism to bring the two back into balance.