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When all your time is spent answering questions and writing reports for other people inside government, it’s mighty hard to be focused on the people outside government you’re supposed to serve.
“It’s a classic government problem, what my friends describe as “yesterday’s technology tomorrow.”
― Recoding America: Why Government Is Failing in the Digital Age and How We Can Do Better
― Recoding America: Why Government Is Failing in the Digital Age and How We Can Do Better
“A film like Wall-E exemplifies what Robert Pfaller has called ‘interpassivity’: the film performs our anti-capitalism for us, allowing us to continue to consume with impunity.”
― Capitalist Realism: Is There No Alternative?
― Capitalist Realism: Is There No Alternative?
“You can have systems that do every possible thing policymakers can think of to ensure “program integrity” (in other words, making sure no one is getting a dollar more than they should) or you can have systems that scale. You can’t have both.”
― Recoding America: Why Government Is Failing in the Digital Age and How We Can Do Better
― Recoding America: Why Government Is Failing in the Digital Age and How We Can Do Better
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