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Seems like as I get older I find my self being correct much more often than I want to be. If you divvy up responsibility sufficiently malice at an organization
by throwaway0a5e 5y ago
Seems like as I get older I find my self being correct much more often than I want to be.
If you divvy up responsibility sufficiently malice at an organizational level is indistinguishable from all the individual actors within optimizing for achieving their own little KPIs. Generally speaking most people do their jobs satisfactorily. Nobody needs to be incompetent to get bad results. "Not my fault a little old lady got shot, I just check the spelling on the paperwork."
- DoreenMichele 5y agoSex is a fairly private and personal matter for most people. This creates inherent barriers to "society" working things out on this topic.
- imtringued 5y agoThis is also true of capitalism. Companies and the wealthy don't conspire against you, they just follow a flawed profit motive that does not fall to 0% as perfect market theory predicts. The ugliness does not come from malice, it comes from externalities. You don't see the damage you cause and once someone tells you to look it is too late and you must pretend to be ignorant.
- throwaway0a5e 5y agoThis is true of any large organization with sufficiently diffuse responsibility. The catholic church, the bureaucracies of the USSR or Roman empire, DuPont, etc. they all do it. Taking a cheap jab at capitalism (or anything else) in this context just paints you as blinded by ideology. No organization in the history of humanity has come up with a reproducible solution to this problem.