Bureaucrats are designed to be unproductive

The waffle about Ireland’s so-called alcohol problem makes me realise the origin of one vicious circle in our lives.

We, the much-abused taxpayer, have so many non-productive bureaucrats because none of them achieve anything for the country, so we need more bureaucrats, etc, etc.

Most of what has been said reminds me of everything I read about the half-witted bumbling that led to Prohibition in the USA.