#455 – Adam Frank: Alien Civilizations and the Search for Extraterrestrial Life

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The Byzantine Empire, the Roman Empire, the Mongol Empire, as I mentioned. None of it works without paperwork. You know, bureaucracy, rightfully so, gets a bad rap. But at its best, bureaucracy is necessary to manage the affairs of large organizations. You know, humans aren't very good at working with each other when they scale beyond a thousand people. So you need great administrative systems.