A Lean System is Over Adapted To A Context Which WILL Change. Resilient Systems Survive Precisely By NOT Making Their Components Too Lean.

   (Commentary posted by Roger Erickson.)



For Uncle Sam's sake! Wallace and Darwin elegantly discussed this in 1858. It's the hall mark of Statistical Process Control.

Reduce sources of variance to the point at which they don't significantly ADD to the cost of process performance - i.e., immediate survival. But do NOT reduce component variance further (make things any leaner), since it doesn't help reduce net costs, AND it removes the very resiliency needed when contexts inevitably DO change.

This is NOT rocket science, people.

If only American Policy offices kept up with what Americans collectively know.

Or even wanted to keep up with what Americans know, and their aspirations for our nation.

Income inequality is NOT benign. Not anymore than any other form of inequality in a democracy.

Distribution of Productivity Gains and the Structure of Society

Census Bureau: Means-Tested Gov't Benefit Recipients Outnumber Full-Time Year-Round Workers

What good to a General are soldiers deprived of most weapons, ammo and supplies? Or training?

What good to a nation is a Middle Class deprived of most means for further - and adequately distributed - innovation?

If the 0.1% want to want to hoard their nation's Adaptive Rate, and keep it to themselves - by shooting their nation in the Middle Class .... you're doin' a heckuva job Koch Brothers!

How and why did we swap Henry Ford thinking and revert to the Koch Brothers mercantilist approach of hoarding for the sake of hoarding?