Comment on "Meritocracy"
Madison420@lemmy.world 6 days ago
I tell especially dumb children that are actively making mistakes that cost me time and money that they’re doing their best and that’s all that matters. It’s a lie and I’m pretty sure they know it but somehow that’s both a useful and reasonable reaction to have for the secretary of state the third highest office in the country.
ThomasCrappersGhost@feddit.uk 6 days ago
Children, or people still learning for that matter, deserve to told “hey, you did your best and you’ve made some progress”. Allegedly competent adults that fuck up addition people to a group chat about something as important as this deserve to be beaten around the head with anything available. Not told “great job buddy. Have a lollipop for your hard work”.
ameancow@lemmy.world 6 days ago
We embrace the idea of human foibles and errors while we’re learning to do our work.
When you get to the point that you’re making decisions about how you’re going to spend millions of taxpayer dollars to end the lives of a group of people who are impacting the world, I would dearly hope that you have “completed” your training in life and are not making mistakes anymore, I would dearly hope that the people making these decisions have so much practice and experience in these operations that they wouldn’t need a feel-better cookie for making a huge boo-boo.
And yet here we are.
ThomasCrappersGhost@feddit.uk 6 days ago
When it’s something as critical as this why aren’t things double or even triple checked, though?
ameancow@lemmy.world 6 days ago
I mean, to put it bluntly, they’re idiots. They didn’t pass tests or show qualifications for their positions, these are media personalities who were either elected by idiots or nominated by idiots.
AA5B@lemmy.world 6 days ago
They are. I’m sure there are policies against discussing confidential actions on commercial services. I’m sure there are approved services they could have used, that there is security policy to use. I’m sure no external people would have been allowed to I’m sure they’re monitored for various leaking data. I’m sure there is someone accountable for making it so.
It’s not just that these are dumbasses who made a stupid mistake, but they are almost certainly so convinced of their own superiority that they don’t have to follow policies that everyone else does, policies that prevent stupid mistakes like this.
The real problem is they are above the law. They are royalty not accountable to any rules or ethics. That’s the real problem.