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It results in a lot of performance theater. If being at your desk, key presses, mouse clicks and eye movements are the most important then you can expect a lot of long winded lists, reports and mails. There'll be people doing thousands of things manually instead of thinking about it and automate things. So much productivity measured and nothing gets done.

Worker productivity is like holding sand. It you grab it and squeeze it hard, it just runs through your fingers and falls to the ground. But if you cup your hands and support it carefully you can hold on to much larger amounts of it.

USA forms an empire and each empire follows roughly the same path. There always comes a time when greed gets too much and the whole system starts to rot from the inside out. Who exactly the greedy bastards are that do the deed is up to change but they're always there. It's a classic.

And the things that are perfectly okay today might be the things you want to hide tomorrow. Abortions and pregnancies, thoughts about labor rights or climate, sexual orientation, ...

The world is rebooting at the moment. The old systems are breaking down, the new system is still being written and in the meantime all kinds of rogue elements run havoc.

We live in ‘interesting’ times.

The old world is dying, and the new world struggles to be born: now is the time of monsters.

China is replacing oil and gas with renewables and batteries, and replace all cars with EV. That's in south east Asia, Europe, Africa and south America. USA will be outdated with drill baby drill.

At least back then they knew the landlord fixed the boiler and dealt with the rat infestation. Now you have to do it yourself and pay the landlord for the honor.

Much of his money depends on loans with Tesla stock as collateral, including the money used to buy Twitter. If the stock loses value, no new loans.

We're in trouble when it learns to debug.

So that's three judges about to get DOGEd.

UK is still coming to terms with Brexit, which happened in 2020, and many will still argue it was a good idea, just badly executed.

Now start adding the "Well yes, but if" demands until the system inevitably breaks.

China is Sun Tzuing so hard right now. “Never interrupt your enemy when he is making a mistake”

And preferably a bit harder to use to keep the script kiddies out.

Really speed running the "Why Nations Fail" checklist. Kill institutions, inclusivity, rule of law, pushing extractive industries. Educational and healthcare is already half death but still needs to get the coup de grâce.

Yes, in the new "might is right" world Trump is pushing for, it's better to start pushing back or get pushed over. In his "make a deal" world view, better to say to ban everything outright in two weeks. In his typical fashion, some compromises might appears the next day. Losing a few hundred million customers and large amounts of influence will sting him and his supporters.

Because rich folks don't want to attribute their fortune to being born rich, to being lucky by being in the right place at the right time, or shady dealings. It'll always convince themselves it's because they're so hard working, such a genius, such great instincts for business... It doesn't help that they'll attract a bunch of yesmen and society at large respects money so much. From there on, they'll Dunning–Kruger in spectaculair fashion over anything that strikes their fancy.

The real smart ones know this can happen and make sure to guard themselves against this. They other ones fire anybody with a different opinion until their luck runs out.

Only 1-3 in 1000 die. It can go up to 3-10% for developing country conditions.

True. After DOGE didn't manage to see the difference between million and billion in their savings calculation, asking for receipts is a very good idea.