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The Politician's Syllogism
- gryfft 2y agoI was put in mind of this by a post about hotel management deciding to search hotel rooms daily during DEFCON. Something that isn't discussed in the Wikipedia article is that there are times when, from a leadership perspective, it is in fact better to do something, even something useless and performative, than to be seen doing nothing in response to a perceived problem. A number of upper management and government decisions make much more sense if you consider that perceived inaction can be costlier to leadership than unproductive or counterproductive expenditure of resources.