02-01-2025, 03:24 PM
There's a dark reality that general operational jobs, from flight control to train management, are full of craftsmanship arts that have been lost to the current academia/skill system that favors profiting debt over results, predicts a dark comical downfall. This is an observation that exists on Douglass Murray's works and I know the likes of Musk understand. The Golgafrinchan B Ship problem.
The B ship is a two lesson tale. A productive planet has two productive elements, the designers and the builders. In between are a group who aren't productive enough to be builders and not smart enough to be designers. In a failing society, this B group becomes midwits, HR management, and just generally pushers of paper or gossip, resulting in a low qualification for entry level standard. In fact, things get so messed up that even the qualifier couldn't quantify what the qualities needed are for the job they hiring the public to fill. It is simply a role that exists to be filled with no grander purpose.
I am not saying air traffic controllers are a low capability job. They are not. But the issue is the falling standards trend to cascade into the jobs that exist between the barriers of produce and design what to produce. Bridges are designs, Builders build the bridge. Someone must maintain the bridge to prevent tragedy. That maintain space is where the B ship people occupy space, relying on A group and C group competence to carry them through. And they will continue to do that until time wears down the original feat because the B ship people end up doing nothing.
I haven't explained the Adams analogy, so I'll backtrack. I'm doing this very late in the post, because I want to see who cares. In Guide to the Galaxy, there is a story of a planet/people known as the Golgafrinchan, who are largely divided into two groups. Group A is the designers, the genius and the thinkers. Group C is the builders, the very productive people who hold up the designs and workforce needed. And then there's group B. Group B is just the what-is-neither. At a point in time of this planet, it is decided a great calamity is to come, so the Group A people design an escape ship, which the group C people build. It is a success. The first escape ship to leave, because of logistics, is the spaceship full of group B people. There are two more space ships to build and the group B people aren't largely involved in the project.
So the B ship lifts off into space. Shortly after the group B ship departs, it is announced that the entire planet has been wiped out by a virus that exists on public telephones that weren't being cleansed and cleaned because group B left. The first group to leave the planet is then the downfall. They B ship floats through space, and the ship is so well designed and built, they float through space merrily until finding a new planet. This is my rough summary of the story. The B ship is what the characters of the story end up on.
There is two ways to read this story. One, is that the B ship people are a useless and burdening weight, so the A group designs a false extinction scenario in order to create a giant ship that gets them off the planet and out of the way. In this scenario, the phone virus is a false story that gets everyone from ever coming back to the planet because of the danger of "phone flu" and it keeps the shitty B people elements out of the way of actual progress. The second way of seeing this is not forgiving but chastising, which is that the B ship people did serve a needed purpose, but were adeptly shit at doing it. The virus was real, but completely eliminating the group because 90% was useless then eliminates the highly valuable 10% of maintainers that are useful.
Because within every group A or B or C, represents the distribution that creates Groups A, B, C.
This is why non-merit practices like DEI can completely corrupt and fail a system even if the boss is whomever. They cripple the overall design which weeds out the grouping within grouping.
The B ship is a two lesson tale. A productive planet has two productive elements, the designers and the builders. In between are a group who aren't productive enough to be builders and not smart enough to be designers. In a failing society, this B group becomes midwits, HR management, and just generally pushers of paper or gossip, resulting in a low qualification for entry level standard. In fact, things get so messed up that even the qualifier couldn't quantify what the qualities needed are for the job they hiring the public to fill. It is simply a role that exists to be filled with no grander purpose.
I am not saying air traffic controllers are a low capability job. They are not. But the issue is the falling standards trend to cascade into the jobs that exist between the barriers of produce and design what to produce. Bridges are designs, Builders build the bridge. Someone must maintain the bridge to prevent tragedy. That maintain space is where the B ship people occupy space, relying on A group and C group competence to carry them through. And they will continue to do that until time wears down the original feat because the B ship people end up doing nothing.
I haven't explained the Adams analogy, so I'll backtrack. I'm doing this very late in the post, because I want to see who cares. In Guide to the Galaxy, there is a story of a planet/people known as the Golgafrinchan, who are largely divided into two groups. Group A is the designers, the genius and the thinkers. Group C is the builders, the very productive people who hold up the designs and workforce needed. And then there's group B. Group B is just the what-is-neither. At a point in time of this planet, it is decided a great calamity is to come, so the Group A people design an escape ship, which the group C people build. It is a success. The first escape ship to leave, because of logistics, is the spaceship full of group B people. There are two more space ships to build and the group B people aren't largely involved in the project.
So the B ship lifts off into space. Shortly after the group B ship departs, it is announced that the entire planet has been wiped out by a virus that exists on public telephones that weren't being cleansed and cleaned because group B left. The first group to leave the planet is then the downfall. They B ship floats through space, and the ship is so well designed and built, they float through space merrily until finding a new planet. This is my rough summary of the story. The B ship is what the characters of the story end up on.
There is two ways to read this story. One, is that the B ship people are a useless and burdening weight, so the A group designs a false extinction scenario in order to create a giant ship that gets them off the planet and out of the way. In this scenario, the phone virus is a false story that gets everyone from ever coming back to the planet because of the danger of "phone flu" and it keeps the shitty B people elements out of the way of actual progress. The second way of seeing this is not forgiving but chastising, which is that the B ship people did serve a needed purpose, but were adeptly shit at doing it. The virus was real, but completely eliminating the group because 90% was useless then eliminates the highly valuable 10% of maintainers that are useful.
Because within every group A or B or C, represents the distribution that creates Groups A, B, C.
This is why non-merit practices like DEI can completely corrupt and fail a system even if the boss is whomever. They cripple the overall design which weeds out the grouping within grouping.
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