Admiral Rickover, the father of the nuclear navy and one of the greatest engineers of the last century, purposefully "over" hired. He was a major critic of priv

Admiral Rickover, the father of the nuclear navy and one of the greatest engineers of the last century, purposefully "over" hired. He was a major critic of private nuclear venture because business concerns being above engineering concerns leads to cost cutting pressure and disaster. We've seen the endgame of the private enterprise model in Boeing. Do we really want our nuclear arsenal and expertise subject to that style of operations? Nuclear disasters aren't an oops situation. They have the potential for centuries to a millennia of consequences. Institutional knowledge can be lost or not passed down. Training/onboarding/mentorship/morale/stress/culture are all things which matter and throwing the chaos monkey into that when there is the potential for CENTURIES of disaster is unconscionable. This is playing with fire, and you are justifying playing with fire. OK, but there's a difference between playing with fire in a fertilizer factory, and playing with fire around a campfire. Playing around a campfire is a learning experience. Playing around in a fertilizer factory you might instantly vaporize and take a portion of your city with you. You might fire all your product devs, but would you fire all your DBAs?! People are being chosen for positions based solely on loyalty and not expertise. That should scare the living daylights out of you, especially when there is no one with veto power over decisions that any sane person would veto.