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<blockquote data-quote="TechGrrl" data-source="post: 581723" data-attributes="member: 4932"><p>One of the things I found ironic during the 8 years of the Bush-Cheney administration was the insistence that two things were true:</p><p></p><p>1) Government is bad because it consistently screws up the simplest things because government is inherently incompetent. Which is the point you are making.</p><p></p><p>but, at the exact same time, there was this insistence that:</p><p></p><p>2) There was no need for Constitutional protections of prisoners held in the Global War on Terror because the Government was never wrong about the prisoners' guilt.</p><p></p><p>So, can't have it both ways, now, can we? The reason our Founding Fathers wrote our governance laws the way they did is that they had a profound understanding that HUMAN BEINGS ARE FALLIBLE! There is no way to avoid screwups. So, they tried to design a system with feedback loops that could catch and correct errors. Since they were not perfect, the system is not. But it's pretty darn good, if we let it work as designed.</p><p></p><p>A government, a corporation, a small business, any human enterprise is subject to errors of omission and commission. Success generally occurs when feedback is allowed to occur, and consequences for actions are appropriate. If a bureaucracy, of any sort, government or corporate, is designed so that the feedback and consequences are only those that reward incompetence, then that is what you will get.</p><p></p><p>It's a matter of system dynamics. So when you allow corporate governance to reward extreme risk-taking with lavish bonuses, but do not have a commensurate consequence for failure, you get the Wall Street meltdowns. You get people playing craps with other people's money in a game of 'heads I win, tails you lose'. (Pardon the mixed metaphor.)</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="TechGrrl, post: 581723, member: 4932"] One of the things I found ironic during the 8 years of the Bush-Cheney administration was the insistence that two things were true: 1) Government is bad because it consistently screws up the simplest things because government is inherently incompetent. Which is the point you are making. but, at the exact same time, there was this insistence that: 2) There was no need for Constitutional protections of prisoners held in the Global War on Terror because the Government was never wrong about the prisoners' guilt. So, can't have it both ways, now, can we? The reason our Founding Fathers wrote our governance laws the way they did is that they had a profound understanding that HUMAN BEINGS ARE FALLIBLE! There is no way to avoid screwups. So, they tried to design a system with feedback loops that could catch and correct errors. Since they were not perfect, the system is not. But it's pretty darn good, if we let it work as designed. A government, a corporation, a small business, any human enterprise is subject to errors of omission and commission. Success generally occurs when feedback is allowed to occur, and consequences for actions are appropriate. If a bureaucracy, of any sort, government or corporate, is designed so that the feedback and consequences are only those that reward incompetence, then that is what you will get. It's a matter of system dynamics. So when you allow corporate governance to reward extreme risk-taking with lavish bonuses, but do not have a commensurate consequence for failure, you get the Wall Street meltdowns. You get people playing craps with other people's money in a game of 'heads I win, tails you lose'. (Pardon the mixed metaphor.) [/QUOTE]
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