mcurist

It exists to give an information asymmetry enabling a maximally extractive market at the cost of inefficiency.

It's the sort of thing that could only exist beneficially in some sort of communist system where deal with crime in some sort of fair way and where access to the information on these networks was regulated and equally available and the non crime information could be used to instead feed a command economy.

It may surprise many that we don't live in that world.

I'd go through and find specific examples of his personal involvement picking 0 on the cheap/fast/good axis.

The submarine option in the caves? Expensive, not there on time, didn't work. His push for the screens

Hyperloop was apparently his baby. Fails on all 3 counts.

Tesla self driving. Ineffective, overdue and I can imagine the lawsuits aren't cheap.

It looks like we have an idiot in charge where his only advantage is in pressuring his underlings into reckless behaviour and offloading the responsibility and the negative externalities

This might make sense as some entirely abstract theoretical statement, but in real political theory it's not exactly sound to imagine a government spending a massive pile of cash to create a tool that they never use, and if it's usefulness is greater when misused it will be misused.

Then it hits reality and it takes about 5 minutes for governments to start abusing it and when caught will retroactively legalise their actions https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-asia-23769206

I saw boobs as a tennager and now I'm a terrorist

And all the people aware of the production technique watch it and imagine the characters saying "We can't run from the monster in different direction, our virtual production stage is precisely this big!"

Green screens just more flexible

I find myself wondering if the people writing like this actually speak like that and how aware they are of how it sounds to a non-cultist. The spokesperson is a political scientist, the fact that they must know better just makes it worse.