That vaguely reminds me of Calhoun's "mouse utopia": https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_B._Calhoun#Mouse_experiments https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_B._Calho

That vaguely reminds me of Calhoun's "mouse utopia": https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_B._Calhoun#Mouse_experiments https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_B._Calhoun#Mouse_experime... I feel like lessons from software often have parallels in society. There are a lot of parallels between a project developed from scratch by a team that deeply understands their business domain, and a product+team combination that's missing any of those aspects. When the system is worked on by people that don't comprehend the problem or how the system solves it, the project slowly accrues hacks that eventually become an operational death march towards deprecation. It's worth considering the longevity of religions. Those systems were born to explain the supernatural, but the ideas that created social stability were the ones that survived. Religions outlive nations because they have built-in error-correction that prevents process degradation, even when spread by adherents that do not comprehend the context of the rules they preach.