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This matches my experience. To paraphrase Cory Doctorow, corporate leadership likes to sit in the back of the car and pretend they drive with a Fischer Price steering wheel. This fact is deeply embarrassing and thus anything that increases the illusion of control, even when obviously deleterious to the company is small price to be paid.

The writers flat out rejected Roddenberry's vision of a better future and here's a take on why. We've reached a point in culture of deep pessimism about humanity, and so the characters in Picard are just as dysfunctional as we are.

Every time I'm reminded NuTrek exists I get sad about what we've lost.

This tends to come up every time flat structures are discussed and it seems like such a failure of imagination that anything other than strict hierarchies could work, despite plenty of counter-examples like Valve. Yes, some people do badly in an environment where you have to have convince people rather than use power to get things done. However the problems with traditional hierarchies are so well known people assume them to be innate. I'm tired of it being normal to have an incompetent boss.

This is why we can't have nice things.

Given the top 10% holds 87% of shares, it seems clear the stock market is primarily a tool to compound wealth. Having a surplus of money is table stakes to play.

What if, and hear me out, we asked the people a new employee has been onboarding with? I know, trusting people to make a fair judgment lacks the ass-covering desired by most legal departments but actually listening to the people who have to work with a new hire is an idea so crazy it might just work.

American culture still holds puritanical views of sex, and this article crosses the taboo threshold that 15 year olds are having sex.

Unfortunately many providers don't expose all the state used to create certain resources through the API, so there's no way to download the real source of truth after the fact.

If your only exposure to static typing is six months of TS, what you are missing is experience. You're still on the learning curve and thus the cognitive load of explicit types is high, but with time the opposite becomes true.

A poor manager in a structureless org is only going to have as much influence as their popularity allows. While this may cause damage, it pales in comparison to a bad manager in a traditional hierarchy who has the power to force their decisions.

I agree people are reaching for the limited power available to them, but the objections to cancel culture aren't usually around voluntary consensual boycotts but rather the use of "social force". Destruction of reputation, demands for firing, deplatforming, doxxing, swatting, etc... the methods of harming a person over the internet.

Violating ethical beliefs when they are inconvenient is what I'd call "moral hypocrisy". Practically everyone is guilty of it to varying degrees.

Because nationality is an accident of birth and being unconcerned with causing harm to others is sociopathic.

If it's clear someone is not acting in good faith, I can think of three options:

1. Find out why and try to fix it

2. Fire them

3. Embrace the low-trust environment by trying to mitigate the dysfunction with layers of bureaucracy

Strategy 3 seems quite popular, and to be fair it might be the only one that scales.