For example, the Code of Federal Regulations, the accumulation of all federal regulation is over 180k [gwu.edu] pages (from this site [gwu.edu]). Among other things, in the 40 year period from 1975 to 2015, the CoFR increased by a factor of 2.5. This is deceptive however, since there is a massive amount of churn going on as well with many tens of thousands of pages of regulatory activity each year in the Federal Register [gwu.edu].
So technically, one could take the rules as they presently exist, and over say an 80 year lifespan, read them all at rough 7 pages a day. But the changes in those rules and the various bureaucratic actions such as review hearings, executive orders/memorandum, etc are recently up to around 50-100k per year. That's roughly 150-300 pages per day though most of it is probably junk.
Worse, this is increasing at what appears to be crudely an exponential rate. Even if you can keep up now with the niches you care about, exponential growth means, you won't be able to in the long run.
(Score: 1) by khallow on Monday February 26 2018, @07:39AM
So technically, one could take the rules as they presently exist, and over say an 80 year lifespan, read them all at rough 7 pages a day. But the changes in those rules and the various bureaucratic actions such as review hearings, executive orders/memorandum, etc are recently up to around 50-100k per year. That's roughly 150-300 pages per day though most of it is probably junk.
Worse, this is increasing at what appears to be crudely an exponential rate. Even if you can keep up now with the niches you care about, exponential growth means, you won't be able to in the long run.