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Putt's Law and the Successful Technocrat
- peter_d_sherman 5y agoPutt's Law: "Technology is dominated by two types of people, those who understand what they do not manage and those who manage what they do not understand." Putt's Corollary: "Every technical hierarchy, in time, develops a competence inversion." Related: o Parkinson's Law "Work expands so as to fill the time available for its completion." https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Parkinson%27s_law https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Parkinson%27s_law o The Peter Principle: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peter_principle https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peter_principle "People in a hierarchy tend to rise to a level of respective incompetence." o The Dilbert Principle "Companies tend to systematically promote incompetent employees to management to get them out of the workflow." https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dilbert_principle https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dilbert_principle Also related: Idiocracy 2006 dystopian sci-fi comedy film written by Mike Judge and Etan Cohen: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Idiocracy https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Idiocracy https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mnLxc954ipo https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mnLxc954ipo