Every time I listen to Louis Rossmann, I realize we live in a world where not only do people not own most of the stuff that they use, they're HAPPY that they don't own most of the stuff that they use. Louis' latest video is about someone who got their car stolen in their driveway, with their kid still in the car, and when the cops called Volkswagen to see if they could locate the car, they said no because the person who got their car stolen had been a few days late on that subscription for the month, which while I get if the person herself had been late on the payments had asked that would be understandable, but it's the fucking cops trying to get the woman's car back with her kid in it.
Louis linked the article in the description of the video and apparently the thieves dropped the kid off somewhere and then just took the car, but regardless, I don't think if the police call a car manufacturer, they should make the person who owns the car pay up first, there should be an emergency exception, but they're probably trained (poorly, considering most customer service reps that aren't in banks/credit card institutions are shit), to strictly follow their script no matter what, which is pretty bad itself, but goodness is the world messed up.
Want to know my theory? I think Bureaucracy is dying. Almost all of the tech and inventions have made it useless, which makes everything set up for it useless. All of the politics is based on keeping bureaucracy in place, because without it the powerful have nothing to keep power.
You see it at the end of dynasties and empires. The bureaucracy becomes the most powerful entity, and everyone wants to be a part of it. The new ruler doesn't have it and is able to do more. It's written into Chinese culture, so they're accustomed to it. The US was never designed for it, so we feel it the hardest.
This is why we see so much stuff like this. The bureaucracy is seen as more important than the task. I've worked in academics and big business and it's looked about the same.