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Engineers tend to overestimate the impact of "intentions" on "systems" as big and complex as societies and economies. I doubt that the results the US is seeing
by bayesianhorse 13y ago
Engineers tend to overestimate the impact of "intentions" on "systems" as big and complex as societies and economies. I doubt that the results the US is seeing were indeed foreseen and designed by anyone.
And I would like to add that civil governments also protect the poor from the rich. Just look at undemocratic systems to see who needs protection from whom.
- ajslater 13y ago> Engineers tend to overestimate the impact of "intentions" on "systems" Everyone does. The comfort of the loonier conspiracy theories is that someone, somewhere, however evil, has a plan and is in control. And you can blame 'them' and their competence for your misfortune. Denying that conspiracies exist by people who do have some influence and leverage over systems is the other wrong extreme. There are plenty of good and evil intentions and plenty of conspiracies. Some of them kind of work out, rarely exactly as intended, and there's also lots of chaos.