Get used to this. When you look at the leaning tower of San Francisco, the collapsed pedestrian bridge in Florida, as well others, there are consequences to not paying for talent.
Reminds me of Asimov’s “Foundation” novels where the declining Galactic Empire still had enough technicians to maintain their spaceships and nuclear reactors, but they couldn’t build new ones of the same quality anymore.
—”Get used to this.”
Getting used to the idiocracy of government.
...”the soft bigotry of low expectations”
Daniel Patrick Moynihan