Corporate and government jargon acts as economic tax
The guest and host argued that overly verbose, jargony corporate and government communications act as a direct productivity tax on educated citizens.
The argument
They discussed how deciphering long, meaningless communications wastes valuable hours for highly productive individuals in the economy. Meservi attributed this to a 'Goodwin's law' effect where communications departments optimize for generating activity and volume rather than helping people understand important information.
The thesis, stress-tested
✓ What validates it
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▸ Risks discussed
- ▸Optimizing for communication volume rather than effectiveness leads to hollow, meaningless corporate output
- ▸Copycat behavior among corporate executives perpetuates low-quality communication standards
Hear it yourself
"And over the course of a week of reading these communications where you're just trying to understand what's happening with government or with the private sector, if you spend an extra couple hours cumulatively and then that adds up over the course of a lifetime, That is that much productivity added together from everyone who's doing it."
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