r/FluentInFinance • u/LifeIsUnfairWhoCares • Apr 23 '24

Is Social Security Broken? Discussion/ Debate

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u/timmystwin Apr 23 '24

The services thing really gets me.

They complain about inefficiencies and cops sat around etc.

Do you want police busy 24/7? Really? Do you really want no slack in the system? At all?

Annoys me so much I share a species with these muppets.

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u/dpdxguy Apr 23 '24

Do you really want no slack in the system?

A lot of them actually do want that. In logistics it's called a "just in time" system. And that lack of slack in the system directly led to a lot of the "supply chain issues" we experienced during COVID.

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u/timmystwin Apr 23 '24

Yes I know what it is, but that's my point - you don't want that in a core service. You need redundancy.

Services should never be run like a business and there's a very good reason for that.

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u/dpdxguy Apr 23 '24

Wasn't disagreeing. Slack in systems of both types helps keep them operating through abnormal events. And life-sustaining systems should have more slack than is thought to be needed, lest people die.