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Rushing to execute a contract in order to meet economic goals is unfortunately also a failure of nominally-socialist systems: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/LOT_
by akgerber 7y ago
Rushing to execute a contract in order to meet economic goals is unfortunately also a failure of nominally-socialist systems:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/LOT_Polish_Airlines_Flight_5055#Cause https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/LOT_Polish_Airlines_Flight_505...
As are arbitrary cost-cutting goals:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/LOT_Polish_Airlines_Flight_7#Causes_of_disaster https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/LOT_Polish_Airlines_Flight_7#C...
(I only know about these specific disasters due to reading about the Il-62 because it looks cool)
- adreamingsoul 7y agoInteresting. I'm certainly biased from my own experiences in the USA.
- inflatableDodo 7y agoIt turns out that the problem isn't capitalism or communism, it is arseholes, and they are evenly distributed across all economic systems. What we need to develop is some sort of arsehole distraction system to keep them away from anything important or fragile.
- village-idiot 7y agoI say this often: “it turns out the problem was people the entire time”. It is very popular to imagine that the negative circumstances we find ourselves in are enforced upon us by some malevolent outside force, such as “politicians” (scare quotes). And while sometimes certain social structures are to blame, more often than not it’s merely the failings of humanity in general that’s to blame. Greed and laziness know no cultural bounds, for example.
- beat 7y agoMore to the point, rushing execution in order to meet economic promises, and arbitrary cost-cutting, are symptoms of large systems. Capitalist, socialist, same diff, when it comes to the behavior of bureaucracies.
- mcguire 7y agoI don't even know about that. Isn't rushing execution a defining characteristic of small start up culture?
- objektif 7y agoWhich systems would you say is more susceptible to ill intent?