China Is Run by Engineers. America Is Run by Lawyers

Re:China Is Run by Engineers. America Is Run by Lawyers by maxglute on Monday September 29, 2025 @12:19AM (#45410295)

Bureaucrats with some numeracy skills that can focus on (rather career incentives depend on) hitting central gov quantifiable KPIs and managing public sentiment is about as close to being on engineering spectrum in terms of governance vs demographic systems where governance is referendum on incumbants ability to sell electoral rhetoric (and frequently fail) every X years.

> there wouldn't be so many state-owned enterprise closures and layoffs.

Of course there would, that's how you know cold blooded technocrats are at work. Fucking over irrelevant SOEs and iron rice bowl jobs is sterotypical based analytic trade off. Mind you there's plenty of engineer type doing policy work in the west, they just have a much more sclerotic legal layer to jump through, and frequently, don't.

Go survey 100 diasphora Chinese who lived in PRC and west and ask them how the systems differ.

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Re:China Is Run by Engineers. America Is Run by Lawyers by stuartjohnson12 on Monday September 29, 2025 @06:22AM (#45412083)

> "Iron rice bowl" (simplified Chinese: 铁饭碗; traditional Chinese: 鐵飯碗; pinyin: tiě fàn wǎn) is a Chinese term for an occupation with guaranteed job security,[1] similar to life tenure. Traditionally, people considered to have such positions include military personnel, members of the civil service, as well as employees of various state-owned enterprises (through the mechanism of the work unit).

For my fellow westerners.

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