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> But this is fully automated bureaucracy. Except instead of having well known rules or human bureaucrats we can confront

Reminds me of a novel that was written over 100 years ago:

> The Trial (German: Der Process,[1] later Der Proceß, Der Prozeß and Der Prozess) is a novel written by Franz Kafka between 1914 and 1915 and published posthumously in 1925. One of his best-known works, it tells the story of Josef K., a man arrested and prosecuted by a remote, inaccessible authority, with the nature of his crime revealed neither to him nor to the reader.




There's a reason they call getting stuck in this sort of bureocracy "Kafkaesque"


Orson Welles did a brilliant film adaptation of The Trial. Worth checking out.




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