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<blockquote data-quote="rknop" data-source="post: 7879051" data-attributes="member: 20176"><p>Honestly, I feel this way about <em>most</em> of human endeavor. I look at even things that are supposedly running well, and am gobsmacked by the complete waste of BS that goes along with all of it. It seems that any organization of more than a handful of people will be beset by petty intra-office politics, mind-numbing process and procedure, a management hierarchy that generates vast quantities of utterly useless meetings, rules and regulations that make it ever harder to do anything interesting while creating niches for (and often mandating) things that are at best a waste of time.... You see this at least in small ways everywhere. The US corporate structure is rife with it. The government is rife with it. Academia is rife with it. You can point to big failures that have come out of it. (Consider the two shuttle disasters... which, frankly, we should expect will happen whenever doing something intrinsically dangerous and on the edge of what's routine. However, in both cases, stories of the corporate culture around what happened there were mind-numbing. Consider stories coming out of Google. It doesn't matter <em>what</em> your political affiliation is, consider what's happening in the governments of many of the larger Western democracies.)</p><p></p><p>Given all this, I'm actually kind of impressed that humanity has accomplished anything at all of scale over the centuries.</p><p></p><p>Massive egos covered by thin skins overseeing ignorance and incompetence is just pretty much how things work when you put together more than just a few people. The best you can hope for is that the stunted culture doesn't completely quash out the ability of creative individuals to do some interesting things. In that way, TSR of the 80s and 90s was in fact a success, as there were some people doing some good things there that the world got.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="rknop, post: 7879051, member: 20176"] Honestly, I feel this way about [I]most[/I] of human endeavor. I look at even things that are supposedly running well, and am gobsmacked by the complete waste of BS that goes along with all of it. It seems that any organization of more than a handful of people will be beset by petty intra-office politics, mind-numbing process and procedure, a management hierarchy that generates vast quantities of utterly useless meetings, rules and regulations that make it ever harder to do anything interesting while creating niches for (and often mandating) things that are at best a waste of time.... You see this at least in small ways everywhere. The US corporate structure is rife with it. The government is rife with it. Academia is rife with it. You can point to big failures that have come out of it. (Consider the two shuttle disasters... which, frankly, we should expect will happen whenever doing something intrinsically dangerous and on the edge of what's routine. However, in both cases, stories of the corporate culture around what happened there were mind-numbing. Consider stories coming out of Google. It doesn't matter [I]what[/I] your political affiliation is, consider what's happening in the governments of many of the larger Western democracies.) Given all this, I'm actually kind of impressed that humanity has accomplished anything at all of scale over the centuries. Massive egos covered by thin skins overseeing ignorance and incompetence is just pretty much how things work when you put together more than just a few people. The best you can hope for is that the stunted culture doesn't completely quash out the ability of creative individuals to do some interesting things. In that way, TSR of the 80s and 90s was in fact a success, as there were some people doing some good things there that the world got. [/QUOTE]
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