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A vivid example illustrating inefficiency involves the Social Security retirement process, which is hindered by manual, paper-based procedures stored in a limestone mine—started in 1955—limiting the number of retirees to just 10,000 per month. The bottleneck results from outdated infrastructure, preventing timely payouts and efficient operation.
The speaker advocates for digitization and automation—enabling faster, more accurate, and larger-scale processing. Moving away from obsolete manual systems would free human resources to contribute to higher productivity and national prosperity.