“Maybe after the Marathon catastrophe they will learn-”, no, they won’t. They didn’t after Concord, this isn’t different.
Because with just one success they pull out, the profits, in their eyes, will be infinite, everlasting even…
Let’s not forget that these guys are mad ludopaths at a fundamental level.
Kinda obvious, I know, but is good to remember.
I’ve been stuck on this thought that people making decisions are often idiots.
We’re sort of told that management is smart. That big business leaders are visionaries. If someone’s the director of engineering they’re probably smart right?
No. They’re just people. People that have the skills to get promoted, but those aren’t the same skills to do anything else.
I think it would matter less if there was more competition and more stakes. If some business puts idiots in charge and the whole company dies, okay. But instead we have Google just shitting the bed for years, and there aren’t consequences.
This is a capitalist hell
There’s also that whole thing about people getting promoted to management positions without actually learning how to manage anything. Failing upward, I think it’s called? So they might have been good at the lower level position they were in and then get promoted to a position they have no idea what they are doing in.
I’ve had so many jobs tell me they hired me to eventually become a manager, and then never actually show me how to manage shit. Just because I am good at cleaning toilets doesn’t mean I can manage a team of janitors.
Oh yeah that’s the Peter principle I think. Or closely related.
Someone is good at job A, so they promoted to B. They’re good at B, so they get promoted to C. They’re kind of bad at C, so they stay there.
Over time, all roles fill up with people who are kind of bad.
Yeah, that’s the phrase I was looking for lol