One of the most sobering articles I have ever read on the complete dismantling of Western infrastructure and the slow motion collapse we are currently engaged in. The author expects the following: Terrifyingly, they are dropping competency standards in favor of diversity standards in all the most safety critical fields, from medicine to avionics, the standards are being annihilated. Our military readiness has already been comprised: Diversity hiring over competence, demoralizes the most competent: This is truly end of empire stuff. This can only be fixed with new and better elites that appreciate the value of merit above all else. Author Note: Harold Robertson is an asset class head and institutional investor at a multi-billion dollar pool of capital. https://www.palladiummag.com/2023/06/01/complex-systems-wont-survive-the-competence-crisis/
Perhaps we can see a lack of competency in the selection through voting of our legislators and administrators. Here it is not the seeking of diversity that undergirds the decline. It is, rather, the selection on the basis of extremes of ideology. Regards, stay safe 'n well.
This is already obvious if you've flown in the past couple of years. It's spreading to more and more industries. I think we know how this will work out.
I would recommend getting older doctors. The ones coming out in the next few decades are going to be utterly crap. This will drive patients to white male doctors. There is no way to know the competency levels of any other doctors since the system now refuses to measure that. This is how you dismantle a health care system. I wonder if they are going to change the law to protect health care providers from the tidal wave of patients injured by incompetent doctors. Note that it is a career ender for a doctor to speak out about this.
The age of the company man didn't end because of diversity. It ended because asset class head and institutional investors haven't met a company they won't ruin or an employee they won't shaft to maximize their short-term return on investments.
I'm glad I'm one of those old white men that's going to be long gone by the time they see their brave New world and realize what a dumb mistake it was. By then it will be far too late.
Spot on. If the decline of the US is of concern to conservatives perhaps some self-reflection regarding the nitwits they've sent to DC is in order. Starting with the Orange Menace but including Scott Perry, Andy Biggs, Lauren Boebert, Louie Gohmert, Gym Jordan, Marge Green, George Santos, Paul Gosar, James Comer, Tommy Tuberville, Ted Cruz, Charles Grassley, etc.
its true, these Gen Z idiots cant even figure out what change you get when making a simple purchase and you think these idiots can run complex machinery? They can't even count
They aren't. Accidents happen. They have always happened. They always will happen. Our "government safety systems" have always been written in blood. The Bonhomme Richard happened because a guy already about to be booted from service set fire to the ship on purpose. One of the the Navy collisions was found to have happened because the safety officer was only paying attention to one side of the ship in heavily congested waters and not to the dangers on the other side, and the other had a helm crew that had just had come over from a different boat with completely different control systems. "Diversity" has nothing to do with different ships having different control systems and steering dynamics. It was the equivalent of having a driver overcorrect in their first time out in a car with power steering when they have only driven vehicles without it. So there was a near collision on the ground at an airport. Wasn't the first time. In 1991, it became a real collision so I guess diversity prevented one. And of course, some things that we have been fortunate not to have happened recently in the US since diversity training used to happen with greater frequency, so I guess being told not to be a dick to people different than you is keeping planes from falling from the sky:
Bottom line, the author of the article is against diversity focused hiring practices and used horseshyte to defend his position.
