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This is why institutions break down in the long run in any civilization. People like you, people of principle are drown out my agents acting exclusively in their own interest without ethics.

It happens everywhere.

The only solution to this is skin in the game. Without skin in the game the fraudsters fraud, the audience just naively goes along with it, and the institution collapses under the weight of lies.




The iron laws of bureaucracy are:

1) Nothing else matters but the budget

2) Over the long run, the people invested in the bureaucracy always win out over the people invested in the mission/point

Science is just as susceptible to 2) as anything else.


> The only solution to this is skin in the game.

Another solution is the opposite, no skin in the game

Remove cocrete incentives and pay salaries


Salaries without skin in the game leads to failure. People just trade for their own benefit within and outside the system.




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