Comments on: The biggest challenge of the coming decades might simply be maintaining the systems we have today https://www.isegoria.net/2023/08/the-biggest-challenge-of-the-coming-decades-might-simply-be-maintaining-the-systems-we-have-today/ From the ancient Greek for equality in freedom of speech; an eclectic mix of thoughts, large and small Thu, 28 May 2026 04:47:44 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.6.1 By: vxxc https://www.isegoria.net/2023/08/the-biggest-challenge-of-the-coming-decades-might-simply-be-maintaining-the-systems-we-have-today/comment-page-1/#comment-3616335 vxxc Thu, 03 Aug 2023 23:24:30 +0000 https://www.isegoria.net/?p=50319#comment-3616335 What is this meritocracy all speak of?
Before the 20th century Government was rather a sleepy thing and the Americans built the country, yes with public improvements such as roads and the canals and the wars that were necessary.

America did not begin in 1933 but our decline did.
There was one generation of competent New Dealers and when they left the stage in the mid 1960s disaster struck. There was one competent generation at NASA, and we see what followed.

We’re not even getting into diversity yet, the problem with diversity is quotas and the ethnic spoils system combined with civil service protections: incompetents work the system for loot [Boss Tweed and Tammany were COMPETENT corruption]and Civil Service protections make it impossible to fire anyone.

BTW some of you who clearly miss Jim Crow and Segregation and keeping out the darkies and even worse the women [on keeping women out I agree, but the same standards applied would work] really need to admit it and stop talking around the problem.

You mustn’t think I care for diversity especially as a core goal as opposed to not blocking talent because it’s dark: any sympathy is gone.
The price of cotton is too damn high.

Frankly so’s the price of Christianity, the root of our weakness.

]]> By: Jim https://www.isegoria.net/2023/08/the-biggest-challenge-of-the-coming-decades-might-simply-be-maintaining-the-systems-we-have-today/comment-page-1/#comment-3616195 Jim Tue, 01 Aug 2023 21:50:38 +0000 https://www.isegoria.net/?p=50319#comment-3616195 To induce the self-respecting competents you of course must be willing and able to supply goodly wages of loot and booty, pearls and girls, cash and ass. There’s no such thing as a free lunch.

]]> By: Jim https://www.isegoria.net/2023/08/the-biggest-challenge-of-the-coming-decades-might-simply-be-maintaining-the-systems-we-have-today/comment-page-1/#comment-3616177 Jim Tue, 01 Aug 2023 15:26:06 +0000 https://www.isegoria.net/?p=50319#comment-3616177 Simply don’t establish minimum contacts with any jurisdiction intent on ramming incompetents down your throat. They can’t sue you if they can’t serve you.

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