you misspelled papered
Y'know, part of me really wonders if we actually should be keeping paper backups of important documents, document scanning tech is better than ever and keeping secured paper copies allows restoration in a crisis.
Why not digital backups? Like hard drives, tape (eg. LTO), etc. They take up far less space and are less fragile.
Risk of corruption from electromagnetic disturbance in the event of a nuclear exchange, these docs should be capable of being retrieved even in a catastrophe scenario if for no other reason than to service future archeological record.
I'd actually go with something like microfiche or nanofiche. Human readable (with some support from a microscope), lasts and incredible amount of time, and can be used as a very safe backup.
I feel like in America bureaucracy is fundamentally understood to be a bad thing, and I just don't think that's normal outside the US. Bureaucracy is simply a device to inhibit corruption in hierarchical systems.
We constantly complain about political corruption, privatization of critical infrastructure, contractors charging the military hundreds of dollars for hammers. Well the only solution for that is to increase bureaucratic oversight.
