Why Things Go to Shit
When people have both enough power to undermine a system and a desire to get what they want that is greater than their desire to maintain the system, the system will fail.
Ray Dalio • Principles: Life and Work
A good system is designed to be periodically cleared of cruft. It has a built-in counterbalance. Without this pressure, our bias drives us to add band-aid after band-aid, until the only choice is to destroy the whole system and start from scratch.