Every law is an implicit threat of violence, backed by guns.

Manual overrides are key to most designs, particularly in new systems.

It's not going to all work perfectly. Not gonna happen. Make sure a person can brute force a solution. You can automate more when the requirements are better understood, and have stabilized.

The goal should be a *process* that works, whatever the tech, and that includes *people*.

That's the way government solves problems - point guns at people to shut them up. Problem solved!

Yes, only people who offer value in free exchange are the greedy ones. Men with guns who take they want aren't greedy at all.

Yes, the Kulaks are always sabotaging the plans of the Party!

Now you're catching on.

Killing people - not so profitable. Threatening to kill them - very profitable. That's where the power is at. Things are the way they are because most people support men with guns making it that way.

Yes, that's part of the tactic of the corps. No bureaucrat is going to cut his own project. Or his own budget.

So the corp over promises, and the bureaucrats sign on, thereby committing to the project and the relationship. The bureaucrats are never going to say "please cut the project where all my expertise and relationships are", even if he's not being greased under the table. Which the decision makers are.

You win the Thug of the Day award. Yes, people shouldn't be *allowed* to exchange value for value based on their own preferences. The government should step in and shoot them. Yay! What a Brave New World!

It's the guns of the government that caused the problem. When the government no longer enforces medical monopolies, we'll stop paying monopoly prices.

It's costs that much because men with guns prevent competition from others who would provide those chemicals at a lower cost.

When I'm free to purchase medical care from anyone willing to provide it, it will be time to talk about market failure in health care. Until then, the medical mafia is just another shakedown operation enabled by government guns.

Health care is cheap. Government control is expensive.

Then reality has shown him to be correct. Rules are enforced on the ruled by the rulers. Rulers don't enforce rules on themselves. Rules are for the peasants.

And even if the requirement documents never changed, even if they were chiseled in granite, they'd still be shit.

When doesn't this happen in government IT? Shit requirements in, they're run through a blender every other month, and a system slowly grows, while the bureaucrats sign off again and again, because he who spots the problem is held to have created the problem.

But HR won't.

H1Bs may or may not be good. Local workers may or may not be good.

The larger issue is the use of H1Bs by the various subcontracting pimps.

If Google or Msoft is directly sponsoring an H1B, they're doing their due diligence on who they're getting. It's arguable whether that is "good for the country" or not. It probably is.

But the majority of H1Bs are going to subcontracting pimps, and they aren't scouring the world for geniuses. The warm body orgs aren't hiring the best and brightest, they're pushing who they have in their systems, and under their thumbs. Who they have the paperwork on.

The decision that the true hiring org makes is which pimp to procure from, not which genius to hire. It's hugely corrupting to the businesses involved, as the slush fund generated by taking 25% off the top of dozens of salaries is huge, so that millions of dollars turn on which pimp gets hired. If you think that none of that slush manages to find it's way back into the pocket of the corporate decision makers who choose the pimp, you are deluded.

Corporations corrupted, shareholders robbed by middle management decision makers, citizens put out of work, labor laws evaded, disposable human cogs imported to the country, who often plan on leaving, and thereby are willing to take legal risks in a foreign land, knowing that they'll be getting out of dodge in a few years anyway.

What's not to like?