Monday, May 24, 2021

Complexity

 Given how complicated everything is and how inefficient the people who are running it, its a big surprise that we havent collapsed under the weight of our own incompetence. 

How do airplanes fly everyday in a country like India where everything gets delayed, no supplier keeps their promises, everyone is prone to some bribing, most of us are skimping on work and doing the just the bare minimum to coast along. 

Not denying there are some sincere people who do every job as if it was the most critical one on earth but a majority of people coast.  

Then why is everything not collapsing? is it that the systems are so strong that they have mechanisms to catch failure? Is it that the weakest links/ most critical ones are heavily monitored? Or is it that since the systems are so pliable, we usually get our way and the real impact of this complicated inefficient system is felt by someone who has no power over it? 


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