Indeed; the UK has shown absolutely zero desire to use Brexit usefully. The people who voted for Brexit were emphatically *not* voting for more competition and cosmopolitanism, and to pretend the motivating factors behind Brexit were a desire to create Singapore on Thames is fanciful.
As Sridhar says, British voters don't even want to build houses, or power plants, let alone companies.
I am, for the record, in the "sound clever" industry in the UK, which is actively antithetical to efficiency in the Vespasian sense.
What did we do when computers made it easier to create legal documents? God forbid we do the work any faster, so instead the documents became dramatically longer and more complicated.
I was referring to the anecdote of Emperor Vespasian in the article, where an engineer suggests a better way to haul columns but Vespasian turns him down, saying something along the lines of "But what would my poor hauliers do to earn their bread?"
Until the UK learns how to build again, most specifically housing, she will never be anything more than a stagnant backwater.
Dan Wang said it best: the UK is in the “sound clever” business, as opposed to the innovation and research business.
Good luck
Indeed; the UK has shown absolutely zero desire to use Brexit usefully. The people who voted for Brexit were emphatically *not* voting for more competition and cosmopolitanism, and to pretend the motivating factors behind Brexit were a desire to create Singapore on Thames is fanciful.
As Sridhar says, British voters don't even want to build houses, or power plants, let alone companies.
I am, for the record, in the "sound clever" industry in the UK, which is actively antithetical to efficiency in the Vespasian sense.
What did we do when computers made it easier to create legal documents? God forbid we do the work any faster, so instead the documents became dramatically longer and more complicated.
Pardon my ignorance- what does Vespasian efficiency mean?
I was referring to the anecdote of Emperor Vespasian in the article, where an engineer suggests a better way to haul columns but Vespasian turns him down, saying something along the lines of "But what would my poor hauliers do to earn their bread?"
Ah. I see what you mean