Do You Count?
Day 1,796, 19:33
•
Published in USA 
•
by
•
by olivermellors
This dovetails with the previous article
________________
I count. I count a lot of things. I do it from habit and from conviction that good decisions are based on good evidence. And that means counting things.
There is no doubt that good decisions can lead to bad results, that bad decisions can turn out right and that results in themselves are not conclusive evidence of the wisdom of initial choices. However, I find that as a general rule, good decisions are more likely to lead to desirable results. And that means counting things.
Do you count? I don’t mean do you count things but, rather, are your interests being counted when government makes decisions? When government doesn’t count my interests as part of the overall calculus I get a bit miffed and I imagine you might as well. In the last election about 1300 people probably felt they “don’t count”, and wanted to send a message.
Now, 1300 is about double the number of people who belonged to the AFA. I am hopeful that “unity candidates” will integrate that and derive some lesson from the political calculus.
Exponents of good management practice will suggest the root of American malaise lies in a refusal to count and to make people think they count. After counting, and factoring for qualitative, government should evaluate whether existing policy needs to be transformed, or maybe just tweeked a bit.
I know that it is awfully hard to find any countable evidence that the bonus policy is working. It is like finding a needle in a haystack: requires enormous work and the systems are not in place to do it. Needles are hard to find. The haystack is obvious. If you are looking for evidence of the haystack: no problem. That is the thing with trying to find stuff that doesn’t exist: you tend to ignore all the contrary evidence.
Now, admittedly, I have an opinion about the effectiveness of the bonus policy. I don’t suggest I must be correct. I do wish the government would, in the next week or two, look at the situation and provide us with a clear policy based on cogent objective evidence. Until then, I’m prepared to wait and see and count.
________________
I count. I count a lot of things. I do it from habit and from conviction that good decisions are based on good evidence. And that means counting things.
There is no doubt that good decisions can lead to bad results, that bad decisions can turn out right and that results in themselves are not conclusive evidence of the wisdom of initial choices. However, I find that as a general rule, good decisions are more likely to lead to desirable results. And that means counting things.
Do you count? I don’t mean do you count things but, rather, are your interests being counted when government makes decisions? When government doesn’t count my interests as part of the overall calculus I get a bit miffed and I imagine you might as well. In the last election about 1300 people probably felt they “don’t count”, and wanted to send a message.
Now, 1300 is about double the number of people who belonged to the AFA. I am hopeful that “unity candidates” will integrate that and derive some lesson from the political calculus.
Exponents of good management practice will suggest the root of American malaise lies in a refusal to count and to make people think they count. After counting, and factoring for qualitative, government should evaluate whether existing policy needs to be transformed, or maybe just tweeked a bit.
I know that it is awfully hard to find any countable evidence that the bonus policy is working. It is like finding a needle in a haystack: requires enormous work and the systems are not in place to do it. Needles are hard to find. The haystack is obvious. If you are looking for evidence of the haystack: no problem. That is the thing with trying to find stuff that doesn’t exist: you tend to ignore all the contrary evidence.
Now, admittedly, I have an opinion about the effectiveness of the bonus policy. I don’t suggest I must be correct. I do wish the government would, in the next week or two, look at the situation and provide us with a clear policy based on cogent objective evidence. Until then, I’m prepared to wait and see and count.
Facebook
Twitter
Discord
Comments
If you want to count, consider shouting this tiny url:
http://tinyurl.com/9236clw
What if, we got ePoland to wipe the eUS? Problem solved.
😁😁^
your opinion doesn't count funky 🙂.
~hyuu~
I would keep that in mind.
😁😁
exactly.
Sorry my happy face didn't appear in previous post, but i suppose we've underlined the natural response when you think someone seriously says "your opinion doesn't count".
kind regards and good luck with the Moose
Bonus policy will not work. Only expending all treasury and org money will make PTOers leave.
Voters are sending a clearly message to the government through elections. Too bad the government doesn't understand it. Because the message has been written in some foreign language that government members doesn't understand.
Hi. Join the WTP, at least your contrarian voice will make a difference Oliver.
^ Don't you mean will help to compute the differential?
@Semper5
Getting a Brazil CS not work out eh?
You don't understand that a Wipe or Capital cut off is in the pipeline if we can't snuff out the Servians let in by illegal means. Sure people count in Government, and the other way around. People just have to understand the latter.
I understand perfectly the consequences of the AFA agenda. AFA= hurt America. I calculate the bonus policy is helping them. My proofs are often wrong. Do your calculations and share.
Ralph, spamming a little bit? Are you upset me being right? Don't be so nervous, it's not good for your health. You should rather read what oliver wrote
Mihai: I don't know if that was a factor when this plan was first implemented months ago, but if we lose all bonuses the govt will have to drain pretty much everything just to keep our actual citizens afloat. We'll see how things play out, but it seems like the further we head down this path of losing bonuses, the less incentive there will be for our enemies, short and long term. I'm curious to see what the next Administration does here. This should be the #1 campaign issue, probably.