Which institutions are captured and no longer functioning?

[GOD Shines Forth!]

This is a short talk I ran across on Bret Weinstein and Heather Heying's Darkhorse Podcast Clips YouTube channel.

It fascinated me because I, too, believe many institutions (small and large) have been "captured". Simple good faith towards such are, at this point, naive IMO.

 

[Nille45]

Most of them it seems.

 

[Gene2memE]

"Almost all of the institutions have been captured and corrupted", "The system is rigged in favour of things that are not about you".

What absolute tosh - no evidence or examples cited of regulatory capture, no logical basis for the assertions or suppositions made. It's just wishy-washy, hand-wavy blanket statements without any concrete basis in fact.

Then to list the USPS and the US FAA as the only instances of US government bodies that are not subject to regulatory capture is beyond a joke.

The USPS is literally used as a business school case study on what happens to a government service body that's subject to regulatory capture - doubly so due to the efforts of the Trump administration to hobble it.

And to ignore the MASSIVE scandal with the Boeing 737 MAX crashes, which was caused by the FAA turning over same safety aspects to Boeing (due to regulatory capture), displays STAGGERING ignorance. The Europeans are furious at the US for the massive stuff up - to the point where the EU-US aviation safety agreement has been majorly revised because EASA doesn't trust the FAA to do its job any more.


The Dark Horse podcast is supposed to be the darling of the intellectual dark web. I've heard better discussions from Joe Rogan than that snippet.

 

[GOD Shines Forth!]

The Dark Horse podcast is supposed to be the darling of the intellectual dark web. I've heard better discussions from Joe Rogan than that snippet.

They have others, lol. I'm not committed to the source, but am interested in the "capture".

How can any outsider critique institutions according to your impeccable standards?

 

[Gene2memE]

With specific, concrete examples that are clear cases of their assertions. From specifics, you can then move towards trend analysis and then to generalisations.

If you want to talk regulatory capture in the US, there are a plethora of examples - both historical and current.

The FAA is a perfect example - sections of the agency's core safety oversight and training budgets were lowered through the early to mid 2000s, mostly as a result of lower revenue for the agency due to the post September 11 downturn in commercial aviation.

This forced the FAA to slow hiring/training of some specific engineering disciplines - most notably software validation and materials engineering. This meant the agency had to get the aerospace industry to sign on to certify its own designs, under FAA supervision.

This worked well initially - basically, it's easier/ cheaper to validate someone else's work than do it all yourself - but it led to a problem down the road. Within a decade, the FAA lost so much of its validation and certification expertise that it was forced to rely on the industry's own assessment of the safety of its own designs.

We can see the consequences with a number of designs for big US aerospace manufacturers. Boeing is the most obvious case - it essentially called the shots on the certification process and timeline for the 737 MAX (because it was under commercial pressure to compete with Airbus' A230neo), and the end result was a weight & balance issue, plus a software and training issue, that put two commercial passenger jets into irrecoverable nose dives that killed 370 people and grounded 400 plus aircraft.

We could also talk about the FAA and the space industry as another concrete example, but I don't have the time at the moment to explain THAT particularly spectacular mess.