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       Very, very interesting explanation on why some American companies might genuinely prefer Indians ... because of a superior ability to navigate bureaucratic systems ("incidental complexity").The author is the sort of guy who a day or so ago had a long talk with Acting Secretary of the Navy Hung Cao, would have been mostly about ship building, which is again jeopardized by bureaucracy (among many other things).  First challenge tackled by Reagan's SECNAV, things were so bad the Congress was about to pull the plug on naval shipbuilding, see Command of the Seas by John F. Lehman for lots of interesting stuff.Such as Kissinger telling him in all seriousness "keep your pants on or keep your mouth shut" (something like that, and the pants thing was real, an Oxbridge party tradition ... of course :cirnoDoubt: (but is Cirno a Strike Witches fan??)).But also an A-6 navigator/bombardier, so lots of inside info on attack missions etc. Vietnam to the 1980s, like why the very early one in Lebanon was such a disaster and Libya a success.OK, back to the merchant marine guy:John Ʌ Konrad V @johnkonradIndians who leave India are some of the hardest-working people on the planet. Nobody disputes that.But spend time in India and it becomes obvious why a small slice of the population develops that kind of work ethic.It’s the same reason I busted my ass in high school: to get the hell out of the Bronx.This isn’t culture. It’s cultural escape.If my only two options were work hard or go back to the Bronx, you can bet I’d clock 18-hour days too.And I would absolutely rather move back to the Bronx than return to India where I worked for two years.Indian nationals have another massive advantage over me, though.I’ve worked in oil and gas around the world, including the U.S. and India. Getting permits to do even the simplest things in America is a nightmare.It’s a disaster in both places for much the same reason: we not only have to deal with federal regulations but powerful state and local bureaucracies too.But as frustrating as the American regulatory system is, as impossible as it seems to build new refinery in America, it’s a cakewalk next to Indian bureaucracy.The average American thinks navigating government websites and IRS forms is torture. Compared to India, it’s child’s play.And here’s the key: the more punishing the process, the more HR nonsense piled on top, the bigger the edge H-1B visa holders from India hold.Americans quit before they’ll spend eight hours grinding through mind-numbing bullshit paperwork and HR training. Indians fill out every form without blinking.When Americans hit a bureaucratic death loop, we call HR or tech support (often a call center in India) and rage. Indians trade notes with each other and hunt for the loopholes.The real problem isn’t the visa holders. It’s that the system rewards them for making our bureaucracy worse, not better.Bureaucracy becomes an artificial moat, and the people who’ve mastered it have every incentive to deepen it.So the next time an executive at Amazon or Google claims they can’t find Americans capable of doing the job, ask the real question:Are Americans incapable of doing the actual work? Or just unwilling to navigate paperwork that never needed to exist? Are Americans lazy or do we just have a low tolerance for bullsh!t paperwork?This is why we absolutely must take a chainsaw to red tape. It’s the number one existential threat to 🇺🇸https://x.com/johnkonrad/status/2059971815821259071https://www.amazon.com/Command-Bluejacket-Books-Honorable-Lehman/dp/1557505349/https://www.amazon.com/Command-Seas-Jr-John-Lehman/dp/068418995X/