It’s very disappointing, but I don’t know how you get good people in a job like that. With so much responsibility, up to having people’s lives in your hands, while having to usually reach some type of consensus with other people, half of whom act like it’s their job to make you fail, and having the majority of the population second guess you on every action you take or don’t take, I’d never want that job.

With power consolidated into so few people in a top down power structure, it may only leave bull headed know it alls and egomaniacs in those positions. Add in our current technocrats pushing AI and this is the slop I think we’re going to start seeing much more often.

I commented in another post today about San Francisco’s mayor canceling his personal plan to address homelessness because after starting it against the advice of the actual people working to address homelessness, he tried a quick fix to Steve money to make the problem go away, he found the exact same issues those volunteers told him he was going to have. I know if I were stuck in the job, I’d be wanting to solicit experts for everything like this, but at the same time, your term would probably be over before you got anywhere.

Perhaps we’re just reaching the limits of what our current power structures can handle? It feels like everywhere is in just about the same mess these days.