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I'm starting to get a sinking feeling in my gut that much of our modern society is a house of cards built out of people hoping nobody else notices they have no

I'm starting to get a sinking feeling in my gut that much of our modern society is a house of cards built out of people hoping nobody else notices they have no clue what they're doing. I know competent people exist.. but how many are in the positions that really matter? How many of our intuitions are held aloft by loony-toons inertial, like a coyote who ran off a cliff and hasn't looked down yet?

noduerme 5y ago
Was it ever not? Ineptitude and deferred consequences for laziness/stupidity have been baked into every society since anonymous caveman dropped a deuce in the water hole. On the upside, we've gotten a lot better at getting to the root causes of disasters more quickly - and at least outside of authoritarian states, people are allowed to inform one another of the causes and effects of mismanagement.