... Germany's cultural love of protesting early, often, and just for the hell of it.
WTF??? Do people ever protest in your country? When I started working in Germany I was amazed by how little do the Germans protest. There is a saying, that "Germany will never have a revolution, because for that to happen [they] will have to step on the grass [(thus breaking a law)]".
Indeed there is a quite nice paper (from an statistical physics group in italy whose names I don't remember anymore) that stated precisely what you're suggesting. They found that under their model of how companies work (how people is promoted and get better salaries), people ends in positions of more power in which they are not efficient. The idea is that you are promoted for doing it good in your job until you land in a job which you are not good at. Then you are not promoted anymore because you are bad at your position but you wont go back to the previous position, where you were god because you would earn less. So at the end, the people on the top are usually the ones that cannot successfully do their job. They compared with a system where people get their initial positions randomly and found that this is actually much more efficient, giving a better output. In a talk by the author he suggested that if his model was right for the government, maybe the best thing to do is get a randomly chosen government. He also pointed out that indeed some peoples have used this system throughout history.
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Exactly. We need diplomacy, not bombs.
Let's spend all that money in diplomacy!!
... Germany's cultural love of protesting early, often, and just for the hell of it.
WTF???
Do people ever protest in your country?
When I started working in Germany I was amazed by how little do the Germans protest.
There is a saying, that "Germany will never have a revolution, because for that to happen [they] will have to step on the grass [(thus breaking a law)]".
Indeed there is a quite nice paper (from an statistical physics group in italy whose names I don't remember anymore) that stated precisely what you're suggesting. They found that under their model of how companies work (how people is promoted and get better salaries), people ends in positions of more power in which they are not efficient. The idea is that you are promoted for doing it good in your job until you land in a job which you are not good at. Then you are not promoted anymore because you are bad at your position but you wont go back to the previous position, where you were god because you would earn less. So at the end, the people on the top are usually the ones that cannot successfully do their job. They compared with a system where people get their initial positions randomly and found that this is actually much more efficient, giving a better output.
In a talk by the author he suggested that if his model was right for the government, maybe the best thing to do is get a randomly chosen government. He also pointed out that indeed some peoples have used this system throughout history.