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Re:How Harvard Business School Has Reshaped American Capitalism by chongli on Monday May 01, 2017 @12:05PM (#14238721)
The problem with our society is that measures become targets. That's it, that's all there is to it. We keep failing to learn the lesson of Goodhart's law, over and over again.

It explains the politics of triangulation, bad monetary policy, the bad management style of MBAs, the emphasis on wealth for social signalling, and on and on and on. It's such a common phenomenon that I'm a bit scared!

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Re:How Harvard Business School Has Reshaped American Capitalism by losteric on Monday May 01, 2017 @09:30PM (#14243315)
The only solution is to raise good citizens that take pride in their work and strive to do the best through their own free will. It sounds like hippy BS, but we're never going to police everyone into doing a good job with metrics... might as well try to teach a different philosophy of work.
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