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Not to be even more pessimistic but you will find this happen everywhere you give humans authority over each other without full oversight. I have a friend who
by hogFeast 7y ago
Not to be even more pessimistic but you will find this happen everywhere you give humans authority over each other without full oversight.
I have a friend who worked in a prison as a psychologist, somewhere with a generally liberal attitude toward prison, and guards would deny inmates medication, therapy, or (bizarrely) suggest that a diagnosis was incorrect (and often deny the first or second based on their own "diagnosis").
In my experience, some people are just born this way. Stupid to the core, and cannot handle being in authority without doing weird stuff. More oversight is needed. This isn't just prisons: healthcare, police, law, etc. (weirdly, you find this behaviour everywhere, even in high-skill professions).
- zozbot234 7y ago> Stupid to the core, and cannot handle being in authority without doing weird stuff. This isn't just prisons: healthcare, police, law, etc. And politics, most of all. Explains so much.
- hogFeast 7y agoWhere I am, there is a largely effective level of oversight within politics i.e. all lobbying/gifts disclosed, decent media coverage, public funding of political parties, etc. But yes, definitely an area where stuff can go very wrong. Obviously, the corporate world is another important omission...most places in the world have good laws around protecting shareholders but do the boards of public companies really put the hammer down...almost never. Probably lots of other areas I missed.
- zozbot234 7y agoLarge corporations are ruled by internal politics anyway, not market mechanisms. It's a wonder that they manage to work as well as they do, despite that inherent source of dysfunction.