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> Even though it’s probably a lot of wasted time (they read proposals ahead etc), I think it’s a good idea to ban phones entirely in parliamentary chambers.

This is general theme with meetings: once you've allowed people to do something else and reduce the perceived inefficiency at a personal level, you've allowed meetings to become excruciatingly inefficient since nobody complains anymore. The incentives (again, at a personal level) to make the whole process more efficient disappear, so nobody bothers.



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