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Not that the objective is institutional rot, nessessarily. More that this administration views institution as fundamentally unimportant.Its the curse of the mai
by idiotsecant 9mo ago
Not that the objective is institutional rot, nessessarily. More that this administration views institution as fundamentally unimportant.Its the curse of the maintainer. When things are going well bad management thinks that maintenance is a useless expense.
- cucumber3732842 9mo ago>More that this administration views institution as fundamentally unimportant Politicians and their lackeys prioritize what makes them popular with the electorate. "Institutions" are not exactly something the electorate holds in high (relative to the recent past decades) esteem these days. And it's only gonna get worse as the boomers croak and are replaced by younger people who've seen institutions do a lot less good in their lifetimes.
- idiotsecant 9mo agoThe problem is that these institutions are still doing massively useful things. They've been doing them so long that they are invisible. People think the gains that we've made in air quality, consumer rights, labor rights, etc to infinity are natural features of the universe. They are not. They are hard fought and require focused, driven people to keep them. Institutions serve a useful function.
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