The Bureaucrats, The Bottleneckers, and The People Who Fear Builders
Who Has Been Running The Country
There’s a reason nothing ever gets done anymore. We went from building this entire nation up brick by brick, expanding west, and making the fucking internet to taking 5 years to obtain a permit to build your own fence. It’s not a talent shortage. We don’t need to import more. It’s not a lack of ideas. We didn’t all of the sudden get dumb. It’s not even money, believe it or not. It’s the bastards in the way.
The ones who produce nothing. The ones who move nothing. The ones who exist solely to slow things down. You know the type. The guy in the meeting who “just wants to play devil’s advocate.” The HR department that spends six months “reevaluating” policies instead of hiring better people. The regulators you have to kiss the ass of and pay off in order to create a business, feed the homeless, or build on your own land.
These people don’t innovate. They regulate.
They don’t create. They stagnate.
They don’t build. They block.
And they do it for a reason. Because if the world was actually run by people who produced things? By people who moved fast, made decisions, took risks? They’d be out of a job. They realized this and they took over some time ago. They started pumping out laws and regulations so fast that not a single human being the in the United States even knows exactly how many exist. Talk about criminal. That’s fucking criminal.
They’ve taken control of the economy. They’ve taken us from gold-backed sound money to a fake fugazi system they fully regulate and control. They’ve made themselves the gatekeepers on whether or not you can start a business, how it operates, and how much you have to pay them in taxes, fees, fines, etc. There has never been more money, more opportunity, and more access to resources than right now. There’s no excuse for why nothing great is being built. Except one: The wrong people are in charge. These people live off the backs of real builders. They take their cut without ever taking a risk. And worst of all? They actively work to stop the people who would replace them. Because if a real builder, a real risk-taker, a real visionary makes it through? If one actual innovator gets into power? If one rogue mind finds a way around the bottlenecks? It proves they were never necessary in the first place. Poof, goes their job.
So, they make sure everything has to be approved, processed, reviewed, debated, until the only thing left is the safest, dullest, most meaningless version of the original idea that doesn’t threaten their existence. They make sure you have to pay to play and if you can’t afford it too bad. You know how you beat these people? You move without their permission. You know how you break the bottlenecks? You build without their licenses. You know how you win? You execute before they can stop you. And most importantly, you say fuck their phony power structures. You don’t wait for approval. You don’t kneel. The future belongs to the ones who move.
Elizabeth Duffy