I really have no idea as to what to do. But I can tell you that every freaking entity in the world is now “metrics crazy”. From your local companies, local government, on up to major corporations and BigGov, everybody is stuck on constantly measuring, measuring, measuring every move anybody makes. So, don’t be surprised when the results are all lies. Everywhere I look in business, somebody is busy padding the books, padding the results, padding everything. Believe nothing anymore. It’s all B.S.
Seems like there ought to be a consequence for lying.
The free market should pretty much take care of the situation in businesses. I think the financial mess could not have happened except that Fanny May and Freddie Mac basically gave government credibility to fraudulent numbers. IOW, if the government had kept their filthy hands out of it investors would have done their own checking on how secure everything was and wouldn’t have relied on the lies of the government - and the free market would have kept itself accountable.
Am I understanding the situation correctly?
This is nothing new. Believe it or not, John Vliet Lindsay did something good in his time as mayor. He discovered that serious crimes were being downgraded because precinct commanders were graded on the level of serious crime in their areas. Lindsay ended that practice and the reported crime rate increased.
What to do? Make sure the incentives are to do the right thing.