Doing so could also cut the tremendous excess costs associated with filing forms and resolving claim disputes. There are additional steps that government could take to help reduce unnecessary labor. While government could have a very positive role in reducing waste, it's more likely that the more creative solutions will come from businesses, community groups, and individuals who see ways to avoid the expenses associated with these vast waste territories. There are already many examples of this in a wide variety of sectors. Here are some other ways to circumvent the waste territories.
Revenues go directly to the people who produce the goods, rather than to intermediaries.
Worker-owned businesses and those that adopt a team approach to production and decision making can save much of the cost of management oversight and increase efficiency. Levi Strauss and Chrysler are among the corporations that have seen major increases in efficiency through empowering teams of employees to make decisions and organize their work. Credit unions help keep money out of the vast waste territory of the world of high finance. Credit unions and cooperatives also save much of the expense associated with advertising, which is one of the most egregious of waste territories. It not only wastes talent, time, and materials, it creates vast quantities of cultural pollution.