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{{a|cosmology|}}Part of the [[JC]]’s careful scientific exegesis.
{{a|work|}}Part of the [[JC]]’s careful scientific exegesis.


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Part of the JC’s careful scientific exegesis.

The JC’s fourth law of worker entropy: The very fact of an escalation—the very interposition of an approval step, in itself, in which one part of the meatware shunts a problem to another part of the meatware—causes more in aggregate delay, confusion, aggravation and second-order bureaucracy than is ever solved by the resolution it promises to deliver.

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