The human cost of governing by spreadsheet | The Spinoff:

What is actually being done away with is not inefficiency. What is being done away with is us. 

National ministers Nicola Willis and Paul Goldsmith announced this week that the government intends to reduce the core public service … through mergers, digitisation, AI tools and spending caps. The stated rationale is returning staffing to pre-2017 levels. This implies the country has simply been running excessive paperwork for the past nine years and that the solution is obvious. The implied logic of these cuts is that 9,000 people were essentially...

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@Miraz Actually, how about we keep all the public servants and replace politicians with AI? 🤣

@Miraz ‘A healthy society is not an efficient one. It is a stable one.’ Yes indeed! And the cost of our leaders confusing the two will only grow.