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The act of measuring would change the behavior. In this way, transparency activism suffers the same phenomenon as security: doing the job right yields an envir
by jdunck 15y ago
The act of measuring would change the behavior. In this way, transparency activism suffers the same phenomenon as security: doing the job right yields an environment in which there is no apparent need for doing the job right.
- ShabbyDoo 15y agoInteresting point. I wonder what graph of oversight level vs. corruption level looks like. I'm sure the point of diminishing returns occurs at only 1/10th a dedicated journalist. However, the marginal societal value (cost of corruption compared to cost of oversight) might continue to be positive for awhile as investigators are added.
- chernevik 15y agoThe need is perfectly apparent to those who read history and political philosophy. "Eternal vigilance is the price of liberty" -- but this sentiment is inconvenient to any number of political projects, both right and left, and so frowned upon as unconstructive and paranoid.