The article was interesting until near the end they crowbar in a superfluous Trump dig.
Clearly, the authors fail to understand their own work.
The genius of Jim Robinson is that he HASN’T larded up FR with new “features” that would have made it completely unusable. I like the familiar old 2000 landscape. Having not added a bunch of garbage, it would be hard to improve it via subtraction because there isn’t much to subtract!
The auto makers could learn about subtraction. I would subtract most of the impossible to use touchscreen virtual buttons and go back to old-fashioned knobs with serious tactile feedback. The old light switch on the dashboard and dimmer switch on the floor were the epitome of good design. Pull the switch out and lights are on. Rotate left or right to dim/brighten the dash lights. Mash the button on the floor to turn high beams on/off. Simple, intuitive, you could always do it no matter how much the car was bouncing and bumping, and you never forgot where those controls were. They were right where you expected them every time. Try that with a pin-head sized electronic fake button on any real road surface.
I still remember Microsoft Works.
That’s why I don’t simplify new versions.
They’ve described exactly the progressive mindset to government.
With everything there is an increase of reliability when there are less moving parts.
America, indeed the entire world, needs to subtract parts, when asked to change or improve government.
People have a feature, even if it is one they never use, that they refuse to surrender.
I think it boils down to people like to have all their bases covered. From the IT world, you have to say "Okay, look. You have this old program taking up a GB or two on your hard drive, the new app is better, you never use the old one, and are constantly complaining about running out of disk space. Let's go through and get rid of some things you don't need..."
Nope. Not gonna fly!
There is also another component that is "addition by subtraction". We see it all the time...when you have a person working on a team who is causing all kinds of problems and bringing the whole team down, and firing that person is considered too difficult to do for whatever reason (maybe they have knowledge nobody else has, etc.) so nobody really wants to pull the trigger.
But then, someday they either get fired or leave, and for that group of people, their morale is like a sunken vessel being refloated that doesn't just rise to the surface, it pops to the surface and breaks the water in a dramatic fashion! They wonder why they didn't get rid of that person sooner, even though on some level some part of their job might be harder.
It also is related to "The Devil you know..."
As for that dumbass jab at Trump: "...The psychological phenomenon that blinds Trump supporters to his racism..." says far more about the person who would make a statement like that.
I would say to them: "The psychological phenomenon that blinds you is irrational hate."
The closest thing to immortality is a Government Program. - Ronald Reagan..................
Change it, even if it's for the worse, and re-release it.
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this is such an interesting study as it certainly pertains to most areas of human decision making. Esp: govt... it just expands lol