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He says "engineers" but he means code monkeys. Actual engineering is all about learning from past failures

This is why we do not have any real engineers at the helm of any nation, state, multi-national enterprise or anything really.

The current world conceptions of engineers are that they're the negative ones, the naysayers.

Aren't there a lot of engineers/scientists near the top of the CCP?

But you and I both know that we don't talk about that :)

All while creating new ones. :)

Nobody's perfect ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

True. Which is why I love this quote from the most beautiful works of art I have ever enjoyed, Clair Obscur: Expedition 33:

You speak to me of perfection, but is there really any such thing? Or is it a siren, leading us astray. I happily predict that neither of us will ever summit that elusive peak, but I care little, as long as we walk together. Art gives us the perception of control. For a moment, as I paint, I find order among the chaos. That is, for me, a moment of pure contentment. And that is truly better than perfection.
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