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The absolute worst is when you do point something out, and people laugh and say, "haha! yeah it's always been like that! ha!" Like - so we should do something
by philbarr 8y ago
The absolute worst is when you do point something out, and people laugh and say, "haha! yeah it's always been like that! ha!"
Like - so we should do something about it, right? This thing that would dramatically improve our lives that is really obvious to everyone. Shouldn't we do it?
Turns out, nope. It's always been like that.
- torstenvl 8y agoThis goes back to hidden complexity. The answer is no. You should not "do something," you should do "the right thing." And figuring out what the right thing is, and staffing it through everyone that has some equity in the problem space, and taking their feedback to iterate over the solution, is immensely time-consuming -- maybe more time-consuming than just dealing with the less optimal system that more or less works.
- throwaway413 8y agoI play in a pickup soccer game on Saturdays. First time I went was a couple weeks ago. I noticed that they didn’t play with any out of bounds - whoever kicked it out, got to keep going with the ball. Made no sense. I asked the organizer of the group about it. His reply? “We’ve been doing it like this for 10 years. That’s just how it is.” I asked him if he personally enjoyed playing like that (him being the organizer for literally the last decade...) He slowly turned and looked at me with a blank stare, as if he had never thought of it like that before. “No I don’t,” he said. He still refused to do anything about it.