[IncRnd]

For each hundred million people, your 1-2 hours pear year is 100,000,000 to 200,000,000 hours per year.

[thfuran]

Okay, but increasing state and federal government staffing levels by a few percent to try to save that time would cost more than 100,000,000 hours per year.

[Avamander]

If you want to speed it up with staff, if. The point of the article is that you don't have to waste nearly as much human time at all, if you have a working electronic identity and goverment services.

[thfuran]

Oh, I thought this was under the comment about understaffing, but I see now that it isn't.