02 Jun 2010
American Chernobyl

This is the most cogent analysis of the root cause nearly all of the problems in modern society I've ever read. It applies equally to across political systems. This guy gets it:

The people who serve on the boards of directors of large companies tend to see management as a sort of free-floating skill, unrelated to any specific field or industry, rather similarly to how the Soviet Communist party thought of and tried to use the talents of its cadres.

The divorce between management and the companies, resources and people it manages is almost complete - just like it was in the Soviet Union by the 1980's. This is the root of the problem - the incompetent political bottom feeders are in charge of vast swaths of the economy, and they have no idea at all as to exactly what they're doing. Atlas is shrugging. Lawyers and MBA's are going to do us in far more quickly and efficiently than bombs or bullets - or ballots.

The Soviet Union lasted five years after Chernobyl. I wonder how long we'll last after ours?

The drawing of parallels between industrial accidents is a dubious armchair sport, but here the parallels are just piling up and are becoming too hard to ignore...

(link) [Club Orlov]

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