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The Parasitic Logic of Government: Why States Refuse to Optimize Their Own Costs
Every time the Japanese government debates tax reform—especially when discussions lean toward tax cuts—they instinctively cry, "But where is the revenue source?!"
In the private sector, maximizing profit requires a two-pronged approach: expanding revenue and aggressively cutting unnecessary expenditures. Yet, governments operate on a fundamentally broken logic. Because they refuse to touch the vested interests and privileges of the political elite, they treat their spending as a fixed baseline and demand the public cover the gap.
If our blood-stained tax dollars (Ketsuzei) were optimized and actually returned to the citizens as tangible value, people would pay them willingly.
But they aren't. Instead of acting as a value-driven platform, the state acts as a rigid monopoly protecting its own overhead. When a system’s primary goal becomes self-preservation rather than citizen ROI, what leverage do we actually have to force optimization from the outside?
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The Parasitic Logic of Government: Why States Refuse to Optimize Their Own Costs
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