Or you could be trying to change minds about a broader cultural attitude...which is what I’m constitutionally suspicious of.
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To be clear, I’m with you on this. I’m pushing against the narrative “install a businessman as COVID19 czar because businessmen are Good”. I don’t think businessmen are categorically better people than public servants.
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I oppose government deontologically. I think if you oppose it pragmatically (“these guys are just incompetent, fire them and put in our guys”) you’ll just recreate the same problems as before.
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Same incompetence levels, just different incentives that lead to different patterns of failure (cf Boeing). Intelligence or competence is rarely even the bottleneck. Integrity and caring is. Absent that, you’ll cause failures whether you sit in public agencies or private corps.
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It’s just the same tedious authoritarian high modernism failure problem. Seeing like a State, Operating System edition. And no “OS” theory of how a “broken” system should be “fixed” survives first contact with the messiness of the world.
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