Society is complicated. But does that mean our government has to be complicated too? The more complex the rules become, the more they favor people with the time and money to navigate around them. And the harder they make society for everybody else.
Americans have always believed that the future is synonymous with progress. Our forebearers were confident that we’d live in an age of incredible technology.
But something weird happened along the way. While we in many ways have gotten the sleek, sophisticated future earlier generations dreamed of, it’s somehow also … a future where seemingly simple tasks have become extraordinarily complicated.
For example, we live in a world where you can use Uber or Lyft to beckon a stranger’s car with your phone in seconds, but where getting your own driver’s license in California’s Silicon Valley — the very place that invented that technology — requires spending an average of nearly three hours in line.
So what’s happening here? In large part, it’s a story about our public institutions. In recent years, government has gotten more complex. And the more complicated government is, the harder it becomes for the average citizen to navigate. And in fact, the people who are hit the hardest … are probably the most disadvantaged Americans.
From healthcare and tax preparation to public assistance and starting a new business, the more hoops you have to jump through the harder — more expensive, more time-consuming — it becomes to achieve your goals. Our new video explains why a complex government is an ineffective government.
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