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>Systems are usually to blame more than people are. IDK, honestly. Systems are created by people who think or ought to think about the incentives they are sett

• klodolph 7y ago
  > Systems are created by people who think or ought to think about the incentives they are setting. You can think all you want, but the system is larger and more complicated than you are. You might as well ask a gear to think about the engine. The system has, in it, people who are smarter than you. You can’t hope to understand all the implications of incentives you create in a system. > But in the end, the lower echelons are still "just following orders" by employing child labourers or pushing out a plane with a crippled design. I feel that a statement leading with “in the end” is too reductionist. These are complicated problems, and pointing fingers is too simple a tool to solve them. The system is set up so that you can blame the people who hired child laborers, fire them, replace them, and still end up with the same child laborers making the same clothes in the same factory. Same with Boeing—no matter who you point fingers at with the 737 MAX, you can fire those people and rehire new ones but the disaster will happen again as long as the system encourages it.