The System Is Designed to Fail

• The system was built by the lowest bidder.
• The system is based on quarterly economics and personal incentives rather than lifetime economics and group costs.
• The system assumes present dollars is the most important metric.
• The system did not budget for maintenance.
• The system was cut back until immediate failure, then they added just a bit to avoid immediate failure.
• The system was built under the control of white men, ensuring little or no creative input from 93 percent of the world's population. 
• The system was built without appreciation of the cost of system failure.
• The system does not account for widespread human foibles like greed, willful ignorance, bigotry, and sloth.
• The system is immunized against corrective accountability.
• The system assumes present conditions will last forever.
• Failure of the system is part of the plan; it’s Step One in selling you a “new and improved” system.