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Basically, a system, any system be it government or a business, can't afford such masses of non-productive overhead as the US and Argentina have now. Neither can business or even the government afford needless regulation standing in the way of necessary projects. Non-productive overhead needs to be kept to single digits, like 5% of all revenue. In 2022 our GDP was 22.5 trillon. In the same year local, state and federal spending were 9.9 trillion, 44% of our gdp. Argue all you want about how this money is repurposed in the economy but it all comes from people who earned it by exchange of labor and is taken from them and filtered for uses other than what they would normally do. Much of it is non-productive overhead.

I am reading an interesting book written by General George Kenny, "General Kenny Reports". It is amazingly fast paced and written in first person for the most part. Something like 800 pages and I managed only 129 yesterday evening. It has been used as a text for War College. The fineness of detail is astounding but engaging. Kenny was commander of allied air forces and Fifth Air Force in the SW Pacific in WWII of course. He worked for MacArthur but had an impressive freedom and span of control for being under the hand of such a martinet.

What Kenny found when he took command of a failed outfit was what I have said about organizations with too many people, too much non-productive overhead. He even found the mess of a version of DEI. Provide someone a position and he will make a job out of it. Without direction, boundaries and need he will build an empire of trouble. That is what Kenny found when he arrived in Brisbane, Australia in September 1942. That is what we have now. He also found a morass of regulation, paper work and pencil pushers. He dismantled it all. Quickly! He also dismantled the ridiculous version of DEI he found. Command and control are a wonderful thing! Too bad only a few are able to use it effectively when necessary and then go away.