From: Platt Holden (pholden@sc.rr.com)
Date: Tue Feb 03 2004 - 21:30:49 GMT
Hi David M,
> But as I work in
> finance it does strike me how much work is done in the world
> counting money, costs, profits, ownership distribution, asset valuation,
> perhaps half the work in the world compared to real services and making
> real things. It would be good if we could be working 50% less on number
> crunching and 50% more on fun and creativity and social relationships
> perhaps.
I couldn't agree more, and if you ask why there's all that work devoted to
counting money and related accounting procedures, I'd attribute the bulk
of it to requirements imposed on those who produce real things and real
services by local, state and federal governments. Recently I spent some
time in the hospital and was flabbergasted by the amount of sheer paper
work required to get me in and out the door--all due to government
regulations, the cost to the economy to which is astronomical.
Reducing the regulatory burden on producers would, it seems to me, be the
first step in shifting work from number crunching and paper shuffling to
more productive endeavors. What do you think?
Regards,
Platt
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