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For the first half of my 15-year career in public sector reform, I was a true believer.
I believed in the elegant power of systems, in the clarifying force of efficiency.
I saw government not as a collection of people, but as a grand machine that, if calibrated correctly, could solve society’s most intractable problems.
My colleagues and I were the engineers, tasked with tightening the bolts, optimizing the gears, and eliminating the unpredictable, messy friction of human error.
We designed systems based on the brilliant, rational blueprints of industrial-era bureaucracy, convinced that precision and predictability were the highest virtues.
But a creeping unease began to set in.
I saw it in the strained faces of citizens navigating byzantine online portals, in the quiet desperation of families trying to contest a decision made by an algorithm they couldn’t understand.
The systems we built were, by all technical measures, successful.
They met their key performance indicators.
They processed cases.
They reduced costs.
But they also seemed to grind people down, treating them not as human beings with complex lives, but as abstract data points to be sorted and managed.
The machine was working perfectly, yet it was profoundly, soul-crushingly inhumane.
This simmering crisis of faith boiled over with the Australian Robodebt scandal.
Here was the ultimate, horrifying expression of our philosophy.
A system, so ruthlessly automated in its flawed logic, became an instrument of national tragedy.
It wasn’t a glitch; it was the machine functioning exactly as it was designed to, with a callous disregard for the human lives it shattered.1
Robodebt forced me to confront a devastating truth: the problem wasn’t a faulty component that needed fixing.
The problem was the machine itself.
My epiphany didn’t come from a policy paper or a management textbook.
It came from a simple, powerful analogy that reframed everything.
We had built the state as a Machine, and it was behaving exactly as a machine would.
The solution, I realized, was not to build a better machine, but to adopt a new, more ancient metaphor: the Gardener.
This report chronicles that journey—from the cold, rigid logic of the machine to the living, adaptive wisdom of the garden—and offers a blueprint for cultivating a more humane state.
In a Nutshell
- The Problem: Modern governments, built on a “machine” paradigm of industrial-era bureaucracy, often create systems that are efficient but dehumanizing, treating citizens like abstract cases rather than people with dignity and unique needs.3
- The Catastrophe: The Australian Robodebt scandal stands as a stark warning of this paradigm’s failure. An automated, rule-based system unlawfully and cruelly harmed hundreds of thousands of vulnerable people by prioritizing mechanical process over human reality.1
- The Solution: We must shift to a “gardener” paradigm, viewing the state’s role as cultivating the well-being of its citizens in a complex, adaptive ecosystem. This is achieved through the practical application of Human-Centered Design (HCD), a methodology that puts empathy, inclusion, and continuous, adaptive improvement at the core of public service.7
Part I: The Iron Cage We Built: Anatomy of the Dehumanizing State
To understand how we arrived at a place where a government could systematically harm its own citizens, we must first examine the blueprints.
The dehumanizing state was not born of malice, but of a powerful and, in its time, revolutionary idea about how to organize society.
The Blueprint of the Machine: Weber’s Rational Bureaucracy
Early in my career, I was captivated by the work of sociologist Max Weber.
His theory of bureaucracy felt like a revelation—the perfect architecture for a modern state.
Weber described an “ideal type” of organization built on a hierarchy of authority, management by consistent rules, a clear division of labor, and, crucially, impersonality.3
This was the “software” of the industrial age, a technology designed to replace the chaotic, nepotistic, and often corrupt systems of the past with rational-legal authority.3
The promise was one of fairness and precision.
By removing the messy, biased “human element,” the bureaucratic machine could treat every citizen equally.
Decisions would be based on clear, written rules, not on personal relationships or political whims.11
This impersonality was not a bug; it was the central feature, designed to ensure that everyone received the same treatment under the same set of procedures.12
For an aspiring reformer, this was an intoxicating vision of order and justice.
The Unintended Consequence: Dehumanization as a Feature, Not a Bug
The very “impersonality” that Weber identified as a virtue contains the seeds of a profound dysfunction.
When a system is designed to be impersonal, it logically begins to treat people as objects.
Citizens cease to be individuals with unique histories, contexts, and needs; they become “cases” to be processed, inputs in a formula, or cogs in the organizational machine.3
This is the essence of dehumanization: the denial of another’s full humanity by reducing them to a tool or an abstraction.13
I began to see this process unfold in my own work.
I sat in on user-testing sessions where citizens, trying to access essential services, became visibly anxious and frustrated.
They weren’t being mistreated by a rude employee; they were being ground down by the process itself—an endless loop of confusing forms, opaque rules, and a complete lack of flexibility.4
The system itself was the source of the harm.
Weber himself foresaw this danger, warning that society could become trapped in an “iron cage” of rationalization.16
This cage, while efficient, stifles creativity, erodes individual autonomy, and leads to profound alienation for both the citizens it serves and the employees who operate it.17
The most common complaints about bureaucracy—red tape, lack of initiative, poor service delivery—are not signs that the machine is broken.
They are signs that it is working as intended, prioritizing its own rules and procedures over the human outcomes it was created to achieve.12
Case Study in Catastrophe: The Robodebt Autopsy
The Robodebt scandal in Australia was the “iron cage” made manifest, a tragedy that exposed the catastrophic potential of the machine paradigm.
From 2016 to 2019, the Australian government implemented a fully automated system to identify and recover supposed welfare overpayments.
It was the bureaucratic ideal taken to its technological extreme.5
The machine’s logic was brutally simple and deeply flawed.
It automatically compared annual income data from the Australian Tax Office (ATO) with fortnightly welfare payments from Centrelink—two incompatible datasets.6
The algorithm then used “income averaging,” assuming a person’s annual income was earned in smooth, even increments across the year.
For anyone with fluctuating or casual work, this method was guaranteed to produce inaccurate debt calculations.22
The system then automatically issued debt notices and, in a critical reversal of legal norms, placed the burden of proof entirely on the citizen to prove their innocence, often requiring them to produce years-old payslips and bank statements.5
The human cost was staggering.
The system unlawfully pursued more than 433,000 people for a total of A$1.73 billion.6
Vulnerable individuals were subjected to immense stress, anxiety, and shame as they tried to fight a faceless, unyielding system.5
The Royal Commission established to investigate the scheme heard harrowing testimony of the trauma inflicted, and its final report linked the program to suicides.1
The Commission’s verdict was a damning indictment of the entire paradigm.
Commissioner Catherine Holmes described Robodebt as a “crude and cruel mechanism, neither fair nor legal,” which showed a “callous disregard” for the people it was supposed to serve.2
The report detailed a culture of “venality, incompetence and cowardice” among senior public servants and ministers who pushed the scheme forward despite knowing it was likely unlawful.1
The Commission made 57 recommendations for reform and, in a sealed chapter, referred multiple individuals for potential civil and criminal prosecution.1
Robodebt illustrates a critical point about governance in the digital age.
The dehumanizing logic of 19th-century bureaucracy, when supercharged with 21st-century technology, becomes exponentially more dangerous.
The algorithm did not invent the impulse to treat people as numbers; it scaled that impulse to an unprecedented and disastrous degree.
By automating a fundamentally flawed and unjust rule—income averaging—the government built a digital machine that amplified a latent systemic inhumanity, turning a predictable bureaucratic failure into a large-scale, automated catastrophe.
It proved, once and for all, that simply digitizing a bad process makes it faster, more efficient, and infinitely more destructive.
Part II: The Epiphany in the Garden: A New Paradigm for Governance
The Robodebt revelations were my professional breaking point.
It became painfully clear that trying to “fix” the machine with better code, more oversight, or clearer rules was like trying to fix a flood with a teacup.
The problem wasn’t a component; it was the fundamental design.
The very metaphor we used to understand the state was the source of the poison.
My Turning Point: From Engineer to… Something Else
In the aftermath, I felt lost.
My faith in systems, in the clean logic of engineering, was shattered.
If the pursuit of efficiency led here, then the entire pursuit was morally bankrupt.
The breakthrough came not from a government report, but from a simple, organic analogy: a garden.
I realized that what was needed wasn’t better engineering, but better cultivation.
A government’s role isn’t to build and maintain a machine; it is to tend a garden.
The State as a Gardener: A Foundational Analogy
The metaphor of the state as a gardener offers a radical alternative to the machine.
A gardener does not assemble standardized parts according to a fixed blueprint.
A gardener nurtures a complex, living system.26
They understand that the garden is an ecosystem, where every element is interconnected.27
Their work begins with understanding the unique conditions of the soil (the social context) and the specific needs of each individual plant (the citizen).
They know that a healthy garden requires diversity, and they adapt their approach to changing seasons and unforeseen challenges.28
The goal is not mere output, but the overall health, resilience, and flourishing of the entire ecosystem.29
This paradigm shift can be summarized by contrasting the two models directly.
Table 1: The Machine vs. The Gardener: Two Paradigms of the State
| Attribute | The Machine State (Bureaucratic Paradigm) | The Gardener State (Humane Paradigm) |
| Core Metaphor | A well-oiled, predictable machine. | A thriving, adaptive garden or ecosystem. |
| View of Citizens | Standardized “cases,” “users,” or cogs in the machine. | Unique individuals (“plants”) with diverse needs and contexts. |
| Primary Goal | Efficiency, predictability, control, standardization. | Well-being, resilience, growth, equity. |
| Method of Operation | Rigid rules, fixed processes, top-down hierarchy. | Empathy, adaptation, collaboration, iteration. |
| Approach to Failure | A defect to be eliminated; a sign of imperfection. | A source of learning; a necessary part of growth. |
| Key Metric | Output, compliance, cost-reduction. | Human outcomes, trust, well-being, equity. |
| Human Outcome | Alienation, frustration, dehumanization (“iron cage”). | Empowerment, dignity, belonging, self-actualization. |
Seeds of a Humane State: Rediscovering Foundational Wisdom
The Gardener paradigm is not a utopian fantasy.
It is a return to the deepest wisdom about the purpose of good governance.
This idea has roots in both Eastern and Western political philosophy.
The Confucian concept of renzheng (仁政), or “humane government,” as articulated by the philosopher Mencius, is a powerful historical antecedent.
Mencius argued that a government’s legitimacy stems not just from the ruler’s personal virtue, but from its tangible impact on the people’s well-being.30
A humane government actively protects and promotes the welfare of its citizens.
The ruler is held responsible for their suffering, even from events beyond their direct control, like natural disasters.30
This is the ethic of the gardener, who takes responsibility for the health of the entire garden.
Similarly, the Western liberal tradition, from Locke onwards, is founded on the idea that the purpose of government is to secure the rights, liberty, and dignity of the individual.31
It envisions a state that creates the conditions for people to define and pursue their own good life, respecting them as free and equal beings.33
This aligns perfectly with the gardener’s mission to cultivate an environment where each unique plant can flourish.
This brings us to the core contradiction of the modern state.
Its stated purpose is profoundly humanistic: to protect and enhance the lives of its citizens.
Yet its primary method of operation has been the Weberian bureaucracy, a tool that, as we have seen, inherently tends toward dehumanization.
The Robodebt scandal is the tragic result of this internal conflict, where the dehumanizing method completely overran the humanistic purpose.
The Gardener paradigm offers a path to resolution.
By aligning the method of governance—cultivation, empathy, adaptation—with its fundamental purpose—human flourishing—it makes the “how” of government finally consistent with the “why.”
Part III: Tending the Garden: The Principles and Practices of Human-Centered Governance
Shifting from a machine to a garden is not just a philosophical exercise; it requires a new set of tools.
Fortunately, that toolkit already exists.
It is called Human-Centered Design (HCD), a practical methodology pioneered by public sector innovators like the UK’s Government Digital Service (GDS) and Code for America.8
HCD provides the “how-to” for the gardener-statesperson, translating the principles of empathy and cultivation into concrete action.
The HCD process can be understood through the lens of our gardening analogy, turning abstract ideals into a clear, actionable framework.
Table 2: The Human-Centered Governance Toolkit: From Principle to Practice
| Gardener’s Principle | Core Idea | Key Methods & Practices | Example from Case Studies |
| 1. Tilling the Soil (Empathy & Discovery) | Deeply understand the needs, behaviors, and lived experiences of the people you serve before you design anything. | User interviews, journey mapping, ethnographic research, data analysis of user behavior, listening for workarounds.7 | GOV.UK using data pipelines to analyze user journeys and identify pain points between services.36 |
| 2. Planting with Care (Co-Design & Inclusion) | Design services with citizens, not for them. Ensure systems are equitable and accessible to all, especially marginalized groups. | Co-design workshops, prototyping, usability testing, accessibility audits, building with diverse teams.8 | USDA simplifying the free lunch application from 5 pages to 1 through iterative testing with parents and administrators.35 |
| 3. Watering & Weeding (Iteration & Improvement) | Start small, test ideas, learn from what doesn’t work, and improve continuously. Reject monolithic, “big bang” launches. | Agile development, A/B testing, continuous feedback loops, measuring outcomes, phased rollouts.7 | GDS using A/B testing to prove that algorithmically generated “related links” improved user journeys for 10,000+ users a day.36 |
Principle 1: Tilling the Soil (Empathy and Discovery)
A good gardener never starts by scattering seeds randomly.
They begin by tilling the soil: testing its composition, understanding its history, and observing what already grows there.
In public service, this means doing the foundational work of empathy and discovery before a single line of code is written or a policy is drafted.
The HCD process calls for starting with user needs, not government requirements.8
This involves listening deeply to the people you aim to serve, understanding their challenges and contexts, and being acutely aware of your own biases.7
A powerful example of this principle in action comes from the UK’s Gov.UK team.
They wanted to improve how citizens navigated the vast website.
Instead of just rearranging organizational charts online, they “tilled the soil.” Using data pipelines to analyze millions of anonymous user journeys, they created a map of how people actually moved through the site.
This revealed “circuitous journeys and bottlenecks” that were completely invisible from a traditional, top-down perspective.36
They listened to the data to understand the real-world experience of their users, which became the foundation for all subsequent improvements.
Principle 2: Planting with Care (Co-Design and Inclusion)
Once the soil is understood, the gardener plants with care, considering the needs of each seed and its relationship to the whole.
This is the principle of co-design and inclusion: building services with citizens, not just for them.
It means moving beyond a “customer service” model, where people must navigate the government’s complex structure, to a truly “citizen-centric” model, where the government’s services are designed to move around the life events of the citizen.42
A core tenet of this principle is to build equitable systems that actively include and empower marginalized groups.8
The U.S. Digital Service’s work with the Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) to modernize its benefits appeals system exemplifies this.
Rather than simply digitizing the old paper process, they engaged directly with veterans.
They ran user-centered design challenges and used practical coding exercises as part of the procurement process to ensure the company they hired could build a system that actually worked for the people who would depend on it most.43
They planted with care, ensuring the final product was tailored to the needs of those it was meant to serve.
Principle 3: Watering and Weeding (Iteration and Continuous Improvement)
A garden is never “finished.” It is a living system that requires constant attention—watering, weeding, and pruning.
This is the principle of iteration and continuous improvement.
It stands in stark contrast to the machine paradigm’s preference for massive, monolithic projects that are launched as “perfect” and “complete.” The gardener’s approach, rooted in agile methodology, is to start small, test ideas, learn from what doesn’t work, and improve continuously.7
Failure is not a catastrophe; it is an essential source of learning and a necessary part of growth.35
The Gov.UK team’s project to add “related links” to content pages is a masterclass in this principle.
They developed an algorithm to suggest relevant links, but they didn’t just launch it.
They tested it scientifically using an A/B test.36
One group of users saw the old site; another saw the site with the new links.
The results were clear: the new links improved over 10,000 user journeys per day and had the potential to reduce the use of the internal search bar by 20-40%.36
They proved the value of their intervention on a small scale before rolling it out more broadly, with a plan to constantly monitor and refine the algorithm.
They watered and weeded, observing what grew best, and cultivated a better experience for millions.
Conclusion: Cultivating a More Humane Future
The journey from the Machine to the Garden is a journey back to the first principles of public service.
The catastrophic failure of Robodebt was not a failure of technology; it was a failure of philosophy.
It was the tragic, logical endpoint of a paradigm that values mechanical efficiency over human dignity.
By clinging to the outdated metaphor of the state as a machine, we build systems that are destined to be rigid, unresponsive, and, ultimately, inhumane.
The Gardener paradigm offers a more hopeful and effective path forward.
It calls on us to see the state not as an assembly of gears and levers, but as a complex ecosystem that requires careful cultivation.
This is not a rejection of technology or data, but a call to infuse them with a more humane purpose.
The tools of Human-Centered Design—empathy, co-creation, and iteration—are the practical instruments of this new approach.
This shift requires a change in mindset for all of us in public service.
It asks us to see ourselves not as mechanics servicing a machine, but as gardeners tending a public commons.
It requires courage—the courage to listen to those we serve, the courage to collaborate across silos, the courage to admit failure and learn from it, and the courage to iterate toward better outcomes.7
It means shifting our focus from mere compliance with rules to the tangible well-being of the people we are privileged to serve.
The task ahead is to cultivate a state that is not only efficient and effective, but also, finally, worthy of the citizens who give it life.
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