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I think a better way of phrasing that is "We cannot ask for better people. The right system makes the wrong people do the right thing". Russ Roberts sometimes s
by ajmurmann 3y ago
I think a better way of phrasing that is "We cannot ask for better people. The right system makes the wrong people do the right thing". Russ Roberts sometimes says something like this and probably quoted someone else who I forgot
- JellyBeanThief 3y ago> The right system makes the wrong people do the right thing. The words "right" and "wrong" in that sentence could make light of the Ardblair stones.
- ajmurmann 3y agoThe statement isn't about what we want to get out of a system or government, but about how to approach shaping the system to create the desired outcome. You can fill in "good" and "bad" with your own subjective values and it continues to hold true. How you make the collective decision to agree on what's desired and what's not is a whole other can of worms.