Re:A punishing South Korean work culture is gradually being ...
by adiabatty on Wednesday December 02, 2015 @05:27PM
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"There is a lot of ruin in a nation." — Adam Smith
This seems to be true of all sorts of large, complicated systems. Smith naturally focused on countries, but large organizations like companies and nonprofits can waste resources like this, too. The human body exhibits this behavior, too — imagine how many things that could go wrong with yours that would nevertheless still leave you able to go to work.
There are endless reasons why societies and economies converge on non-optimal ways of doing things. The market doesn't fix everything.