It’s a combination of factors but all with the same theme. Basically nobody is willing to take any risk for anything. This is on every level, from being wrong

It’s a combination of factors but all with the same theme. Basically nobody is willing to take any risk for anything. This is on every level, from being wrong about a simple decision all the way up to not taking any personal risk with your life. And it’s impossible to argue against it because at any point you can always make an argument for reduction of risk, and anyone arguing against it is demonized. How can you argue against more health and safety standards after all? More rigourous engineering standards? More environmental protection standards? More consultation with the public? But it’s not just a government thing, it’s on a societal level. In large companies it’s the same exact phenomenon of buck passing and responsibility dodging. Each thing only has a tiny multiplicative cost, but the sum total of all of it is the inability to make any progress.