The Competence Crisis

"The U.S. has embraced a novel question: what happens when the men who built the complex systems our society relies on cease contributing and are replaced by people who were chosen for reasons other than competency?" —Harold Robertson

Timestamps:
0:00 Introduction: Hanlon’s razor
1:38 Complex systems
3:28 Government incompetence
4:58 Diversity in the workplace
7:57 Culture is downstream from law
10:28 Conclusion: Make America Competent Again

References:
- Harold Robertson: Complex Systems Won’t Survive the Competence Crisis
- Christopher Caldwell: The Age of Entitlement: America Since the Sixties
- Richard Hanania: The Origins of Woke: Civil Rights Law, Corporate America, and the Triumph of Identity Politics

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