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Some examples of people quickly accomplishing ambitious things together. - BankAmericard.
The completion of the first phase of California's high-speed rail project, a line connecting San Francisco and Anaheim, is currently estimated to happen in 2033, 37 years (i.e. around 13,000 days) after the authority was formed. Herbert Kaufman wrote a book about red tape; the foreword from Philip Howard includes the claim that the nature of bureaucratic constrictions in the US changed in the 60s. Mancur Olson argued that stable societies naturally tend to become less dynamic and more beholden to special interest groups with time.
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