People

People have a need to insert themselves into things that are not their business. There is no comfort today in assigning a task and waiting for the completed results - instead things must be micromanaged. Insinuation and nuance are used to drive things rather than direct control.

People ought to take responsibility for how they use their time. The work effort should reward people for the value that they produce with their time. Now, value is dependent on marketing and media and is not based on the quality of work. So why produce any quality in the work - since you get paid the same pittance - good or bad. The absence of work ethic and the dominance of 'workforce training' drive the system.

Rather than learning measurement for the sake of being educated, we take measurement to prove a point - and don't take measurements so as to not allow those points to be proved. This is not science being an honest broker for describing reality. Agencies don't want good science, it does not support their agenda. Schools don't want good science, as thinking students take too much time and effort to deal with. Non-profit businesses want control of other people's time as 'volunteer' efforts, but want them doing the direct bidding of the people behind the mission statement. Everybody in the system would rather have fake data that reemphasize the false reality that the system preaches.

ArgH....