[ExI] Outsourcing Washington

[Adrian Tymes]

One might go a step further, and wonder why most of these departments need
to be in a single central location at all.  There was clear need in the
pre-Internet era, but as an anecdote, my recent dealings with the
Department of Energy have shown that it has begun to more fully distribute
itself all over the US.

There may still be some functions that need physical centralization.
Identify those functions, and one can identify whether they need to be
centralized with other government departments.

For instance, what does the DOI gain or lose from not having what
centralization it needs, centralized with the rest of the government?  It
rather feels like the emphasis there was on loss, as a prelude to
minimizing or eventually eliminating the DOI and ceasing to care about the
issues the DOI was created to handle.  Likewise with other parts.  "DOJ's
civil rights division?  We can't - yet - get away with eliminating it, so
let's move it somewhere where we don't have to hear from it so much.  We
can ignore their emails and phone calls.  if they try to actually file
suits to enforce the laws, that'll be pretext to fire them and not hire any
replacements."

On Sat, Nov 9, 2024, 3:07 AM Kelly Anderson via extropy-chat <
extropy-chat at lists.extropy.org> wrote:

> So I've tried with some success to avoid the details of this year's
> election cycle news, but recently I encountered an idea that I think
> is actually pretty interesting. Apparently, Donald Trump moved parts
> of the Department of the Interior to Colorado during his first term,
> and wants to distribute Washington's swamp around the United States
> more during his second term. I kind of think this might be a good idea
> because people who live their entire lives in Washington DC don't seem
> to have much of a connection to the real world. I hear the DOI move to
> Colorado didn't go spectacularly well, but maybe eventually, we can
> have the swamp creatures distributed around the country just like the
> military is now. Is this a good or bad idea?
>
> -Kelly
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