This is surreal. The evil bureaucracy has successfully been doing it since the 1960s. It worked. And yes, it was efficient.
Now, the problem is that if you alienate your neighbours they stop wanting to play nice. Also, bureaucracies do not work when you fire civil servants indiscriminately. It’s not the bureaucracy doing this, it’s the guy who told you that the country would work better without it.
Bureaucracy, as per Weber, is nothing but the rational and impersonal administration of resources and exists in any sufficiently large institution, private or public. It is in fact so efficient that it is omnipresent to the point of being the defining feature of modernity, having replaced familial, personal or arbitrary rule.
Whether it's the old aristocracies of Europe replaced by the Prussian state, workshops replaced by Fordist factories, Guanxi in China replaced by modern administration, all of that is simply introduction of formal management and organization, i.e. bureaucracy.
I did not mean in it in the dictionary sense, and please do not let us delude ourselves that bureaucracy has much to do with what the dictionary says so.
I mean, have you ever had experiences with the Government? Have you been to court? Do you know how long everything takes? It speaks volumes. It took 3 years (!) here for someone to be finally given a sentence who almost killed 3 people (and it is on CCTV). This is just one instance, there are zillions.
I see from your link that you mentioned a specific: that court takes a long time.
What do you think the optimal system would be in that specific case? If you could design it, how would it look? It doesn't have to be realistic, but like an ideal system of justice. Are there any precedents you think are ideal or is there something you have in mind that would make it work better?
I think the answer to this cannot be summed up in a comment, and what would I even gain by really doing so? Most likely nothing. If you think bureaucracy does not slow things down or is not slow, God speed. I hope you will never have to directly get into situations that involve it.
I am trying to determine if you just hate something and want to destroy it without considering the effect it would have, or if you have actually put effort into thinking about how to solve the problem that the thing you hate is trying (perhaps poorly) to solve.
If you haven't thought about the consequences of tearing down parts of the system and what will replace those parts, than I think the entirety of your conclusions about this matter should be disregarded and I think most everyone reading this would agree.
First we would have to determine what you and I mean by bureaucracy. It does sound good, who does not like organization? Problem is, if you ever worked for the Government, or dealt with them in some meaningful way, you should have realized it is not so.
I truly hope you will not be caught up in the meat machine of the Government.
Now, the problem is that if you alienate your neighbours they stop wanting to play nice. Also, bureaucracies do not work when you fire civil servants indiscriminately. It’s not the bureaucracy doing this, it’s the guy who told you that the country would work better without it.