Re:Hospital workers make masks from office supplies
by mindslight on Thursday March 19, 2020 @12:46AM
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Privatization means surplus gets extracted to investors, rather than saved for good times.
Pervasive managerial culture causes oversight to become opaque, phrasing it in terms of vague financials instead of specific structure by domain experts.
Economic annealing makes margins thinner and thinner ("cost cutting"), leaving no slack for any change in conditions.
These trends are happening to individual private institutions, as well as at the government level. Stockpiling masks is impossible if it's no longer in your vocabulary.
As soon as a metric becomes a target, it ceases to be a good metric. The market is a large part of our national religion, appointing metrics supreme in a circular fashion.
Pervasive managerial culture causes oversight to become opaque, phrasing it in terms of vague financials instead of specific structure by domain experts.
Economic annealing makes margins thinner and thinner ("cost cutting"), leaving no slack for any change in conditions.
These trends are happening to individual private institutions, as well as at the government level. Stockpiling masks is impossible if it's no longer in your vocabulary.
As soon as a metric becomes a target, it ceases to be a good metric. The market is a large part of our national religion, appointing metrics supreme in a circular fashion.