Re:Chicago sold rights to 36k parking meters for $1.2B that ...
by justinclift on Friday March 03, 2023 @10:15AM
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> So the best we can do is to build a system that works even when all actors are self-serving.
Doesn't seem to be working though eh?
That being said, I don't have any fantastic suggestions either. :(
Re:Chicago sold rights to 36k parking meters for $1.2B that ...
by hbrn on Friday March 03, 2023 @01:28PM
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If a system has bugs, is it fair to say it's not working?
Typically you just fix a bug, though of course some systems reach a point where a rewrite (either incremental or from scratch) is the only option. I see absolutely no evidence that we reached that point, all arguments are just emotional factoids. I also see no attempts for an incremental rewrite, all people want is to burn the system and hope that something good rises from the ashes.
1. Don't think of themselves as self-interested arseholes.
2. They are in fact self-interested arseholes.
We have no methodology that allows us to put "good people" in power. And even if we had, power corrupts. So the best we can do is to build a system that works even when all actors are self-serving.