Oh Tina, that opening question! He doesn’t get to take credit for a tradition that began in the 18th century - if not before!
The stereotype of Bureaucrats comes from the Russians, (Gogol and Dostoyevsky), the French (Daumier), and the Germans (Georg Grosz, Kafka), the Romanians (Dada) and of course the USA, Jules Feiffer. Michael Lewis didn’t just grab this concept out of the stratosphere!
The part explaining Trump and his war on expertise SO hit the spot, I was gobsmacked as we say in Blighty. The way Michael Lewis explained it was cogent and absolutely on point, it all fell into place for me. I have been puzzling about this myself, and 'pathological narcissist' is not quite enough to explain how he works. I think we must begin to understand him much better than we do now otherwise he will continue to have carte blanche over literally any destruction he takes a fancy to.
Service Design is the emerging solution to systemic failures. An emerging discipline that is human centric, rather than resource and profit centric. It focuses on the needs of all stakeholders, including the employees as Michael commented. As in most innovation, government is slower in adopting this than business is.
Wonderful chat and so relevant. I’m late to the party, but as a CPA who has worked for and with government and nonprofit entities- this topic hits close to home. And it’s just the tip of the iceberg. During COVID, the government stepped in to help businesses, families, nonprofits. The generosity of private donors was also extraordinary- and filled in the gaps for many nonprofits to keep services to the needy uninterrupted. This self-inflicted federal government chaos, uncertainty, and global market turmoil is very different. Even historically generous donors will take a protective, watchful position. It’s not just the loss of the USAID funds that will hurt us - it’s funding going to the needy Individuals next door.
Trump is trying to save money. The federal government has a large debt. But Trump is also determined to pass his tax cuts, so his only answer is to cut federal government spending.
I believe his cuts to IRS auditing is deliberate: make it easier to cheat.
He can’t really go after Social Security or Medicare: he’d alienate too many supporters. He also says he won’t touch defense. But these areas are where the real spending is.
tRump is gutting social, environmental,educational and health services to afford tax cuts to benefit his rich friends. Until House and Senate rein him in - this sad destruction of our institutions gets decimated each passing day.
You don't try to save money and make tax cuts at the same time. The US is the lowest taxed modern western country. It's too late to get out of debt now, we'll probably default and declare bankruptcy, but until we grow up and pay the taxes we should, it's going to be a mess. And let's not forget citizens pay for social security out of pocket while they're working. Social security is not an entitlement. It hasn't been managed well and might go broke, but that's the theory anyway.
Americans are not well educated, and are especially ignorant of the role government can be in society. It's all mixed up with our history of rugged individualism, taxes representing socialism, which instead of reasonable distribution of common wealth for the good of all is perceived as welfare queens sucking the lifeblood of the hardworking classes, if there is such a thing anymore. We are incapable of critical thinking, and so sucked in by the likes of Trump, a moral imbecile whose inanities feed and encourage the fears of otherness. It's deep, and will be ongoing, but the margins are slim, so there's hope we can push them out and head again in the right direction. But it won't be easy.
Oh Tina, that opening question! He doesn’t get to take credit for a tradition that began in the 18th century - if not before!
The stereotype of Bureaucrats comes from the Russians, (Gogol and Dostoyevsky), the French (Daumier), and the Germans (Georg Grosz, Kafka), the Romanians (Dada) and of course the USA, Jules Feiffer. Michael Lewis didn’t just grab this concept out of the stratosphere!
Outstanding interview. Thanks
The part explaining Trump and his war on expertise SO hit the spot, I was gobsmacked as we say in Blighty. The way Michael Lewis explained it was cogent and absolutely on point, it all fell into place for me. I have been puzzling about this myself, and 'pathological narcissist' is not quite enough to explain how he works. I think we must begin to understand him much better than we do now otherwise he will continue to have carte blanche over literally any destruction he takes a fancy to.
Service Design is the emerging solution to systemic failures. An emerging discipline that is human centric, rather than resource and profit centric. It focuses on the needs of all stakeholders, including the employees as Michael commented. As in most innovation, government is slower in adopting this than business is.
Just a brilliant interview. All hail public/civil servants!
Wonderful chat and so relevant. I’m late to the party, but as a CPA who has worked for and with government and nonprofit entities- this topic hits close to home. And it’s just the tip of the iceberg. During COVID, the government stepped in to help businesses, families, nonprofits. The generosity of private donors was also extraordinary- and filled in the gaps for many nonprofits to keep services to the needy uninterrupted. This self-inflicted federal government chaos, uncertainty, and global market turmoil is very different. Even historically generous donors will take a protective, watchful position. It’s not just the loss of the USAID funds that will hurt us - it’s funding going to the needy Individuals next door.
Michael Lewis’s laugh ignites my inner laugh. A smart and full of life male. Such a treat!
2000% amazing cannot believe the Sammie’s are mentioned
Trump and what looks like crypto corruption:
https://www.wsj.com/finance/regulation/binance-world-liberty-financial-crypto-deals-70c817c3
Archived: https://archive.ph/PmWVt
Trump is trying to save money. The federal government has a large debt. But Trump is also determined to pass his tax cuts, so his only answer is to cut federal government spending.
I believe his cuts to IRS auditing is deliberate: make it easier to cheat.
He can’t really go after Social Security or Medicare: he’d alienate too many supporters. He also says he won’t touch defense. But these areas are where the real spending is.
tRump is gutting social, environmental,educational and health services to afford tax cuts to benefit his rich friends. Until House and Senate rein him in - this sad destruction of our institutions gets decimated each passing day.
Exactly.
You don't try to save money and make tax cuts at the same time. The US is the lowest taxed modern western country. It's too late to get out of debt now, we'll probably default and declare bankruptcy, but until we grow up and pay the taxes we should, it's going to be a mess. And let's not forget citizens pay for social security out of pocket while they're working. Social security is not an entitlement. It hasn't been managed well and might go broke, but that's the theory anyway.
I’m Canadian. We pay higher taxes. But I notice some Americans are hysterical on the subject of taxes. I don’t understand it.
Americans are not well educated, and are especially ignorant of the role government can be in society. It's all mixed up with our history of rugged individualism, taxes representing socialism, which instead of reasonable distribution of common wealth for the good of all is perceived as welfare queens sucking the lifeblood of the hardworking classes, if there is such a thing anymore. We are incapable of critical thinking, and so sucked in by the likes of Trump, a moral imbecile whose inanities feed and encourage the fears of otherness. It's deep, and will be ongoing, but the margins are slim, so there's hope we can push them out and head again in the right direction. But it won't be easy.