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# Numinous Complexity in Action
- URL: https://atangleofviews.ghost.io/numinous-complexity-in-action/
- Published: 2026-09-13T05:28:55.000Z
- Updated: 2026-09-29T04:54:23.000Z
- Author: heedless

More Perfect Union's "[The People Who Are Abusing Welfare Are Not Who You Think](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YKAD7l1a9hc)" has an awkward title, but it's a worthy survey of the complexity of administering state-funded programs like Medicaid. 

Except the complexity is fake, meant to squeeze money out of the program and pay consulting fees to private firms that, per the oligarchy's "market efficiency," create cumbersome processes that frustrate the distribution of public money to intended recipients. If you are wondering whether Deloitte has a lot of bullshit jobs, wonder no more. 

Georgia's Medicaid variant, Pathways, reportedly spent most of its budget on administrative payments, especially to consultants at Deloitte, the private for-profit company contracted to manage the system. Technically, they do not administer the program, but it feels like a distinction without a difference. Actual payments to beneficiaries were a secondary outlay. Capitalist efficiency meant building a bloated private bureaucracy to feed private bank accounts, and it does so under the patina of regulatory complexity. As the vlog points out, no competitive market exists for administrative contracts for government programs, so a few companies like Deloitte end up getting them. 

The vlog claims that fifty states paid the full cost individually for the same implementation, even though it would've been cheaper for the federal government to build the platform internally and let the states use it for free. Because these systems rely on state-of-the-art technology (sarcasm has entered the chat), they are prone to glitches, duplication, needless repetition, and onerous filings. Big consultancies and accounting firms are well-known users of offshore Indian labor, so no surprise that much of the work yields even higher profit margins on what should be an in-house, publicly funded project.

The systems' complexity is a feature, not a bug, because it guarantees that capitalists can feed from a very wide, very deep trough of public money. The complexity here isn't organic; it's a design that ensures countless useless middle managers have enough resources to build entourages of flunkies. Companies like Deloitte don't grow the bottom line by being ruthlessly efficient. This is an idol of the capitalist mind.

Each state's cost is only nominal, since the Feds pay 90% of every state's system. The rule is right there in the regs:

> 42 CFR 433.15(b): "(3) 90 percent for design, development, or installation of mechanized claims processing and information retrieval systems… (4) 75 percent for operation of mechanized claims processing and information retrieval systems." 

Instead of paying the cost once for a federal platform, American taxpayers pay it fifty times at 90%, then shell out another wad of cash fifty times at 75% for ongoing operation.

AI isn't mentioned in the piece, but federally developed systems could greatly simplify the process, and agents could write the software quickly and accurately, with no outside consultants needed. Instead of private capitalists charging multiple times for the same private citizen's information, it could be collected once for pennies. The vlog mentions one Deloitte estimate that maintenance and software updates would take fifty years and cost a lot. No nation can survive such rapine of public money.

AI could easily deduplicate and untangle the process, putting many thousands of bullshit job holders out of work and on UBI, where they would be happier. Some of these liberated corporate drones might actually find fulfillment in serving others instead of making up fifty-year project timelines for bug fixes.

When America implodes (the process is well underway), some midwit bean counters will undoubtedly assess the fall as "numinous" complexity laying low yet another great empire. More plausibly, the evidence of theft, fraud, and graft will be so widespread, so well documented that such theories will be laughed at as the silliness of court intellectuals. The capitalists better hope that all the video and Internet archives are completely purged during the collapse.

America cannot survive the system shocks queuing up because of greed, not complexity. Greed is simply draining the reserve tanks from the tractor-trailer making a long haul across a desert. When that rig breaks down, it will have nothing to fall back on since the oligarchs will have captured and redirected its fuel to their own tanks.