Gotta agree. I’ve witnessed this phenomenon that probably causes it up-close in the public sector. It’s a larger-scale case of that same phenomenon that makes

Gotta agree. I’ve witnessed this phenomenon that probably causes it up-close in the public sector. It’s a larger-scale case of that same phenomenon that makes bigger businesses generally less able to react than smaller ones - everyone working there is primarily concerned with protecting their own neck or at best, those of their immediate peers in a kind of clique-ey way. Survival in those waters is about keeping your head in and greasing the right wheels. Dissenters are efficiently dealt with. Given that, it’s no surprise there’s a general unwillingness to fo against the grain and push for change. The closest you get is elections which are drastically abstract and unable to tackle/target single issues until they become overriding priorities. Even then you’re just swapping out the leadership and there’s a whole abstraction of the machinery of government to wade through before you get close to the ‘able to do things’ people. In fact underneath that you’ve now got an additional layer because many things are farmed out to the private sector. Maybe this is what the Great Filter looks like from within?