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idle_zealotlast Monday at 9:38 PM1 replyview on HN

A terribly defeatist attitude. The same could be said about, say, death during childbirth. For hundreds of thousands of years people tried methods of midwifery to ease that process and reduce deaths to little effect. People considered that to be women's lot, an immutable fact of human nature. Then we figured out how to reduce deaths during childbirth to a relatively tiny fraction of all-cause mortality, and that level of care became standard, at least in parts of the world. Why would you be so convinced that systems of organization are unsolvable? Where is your hacker's spirit?


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AnthonyMouseyesterday at 1:23 AM

We have a system for improving organizations. Competition.

The actual problem is that our system for preserving competition is insufficiently effective.

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