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Re:People Aren’t Dumb, the World Is Hard by JumpCrisscross on Thursday July 12, 2018 @08:19PM (#17519666)
> I'm not convinced the legislature explicitly killing or dramatically reconstituting agencies is a significantly rarer event than large companies going bankrupt

In Western European and North American history, at least, it dramatically is. Look at a list of the Dow or S&P 500's founding components. Look at those lists now. Now look at a list of U.S. departments in 1850, and compare them to today.

Re:People Aren’t Dumb, the World Is Hard by notahacker on Friday July 13, 2018 @05:10AM (#17521506)
My reference point is the UK, where we killed 89 civil service departments in the early 90s alone.