Oddbean new post about login | logout The double-speak is amazing. One minute the gov't is so grossly incompetent they can barely run a website. The other minute they are so subtle and crafty and smart they can orchestrate these complex conspiracies.
I think there are definitely conspiracies, but the conspiracies are mostly compartmentalized and/or conspiracies of ignorance among people with common financial incentives. There are some fairly smart people involved, but they are also ethically retarded & just good at creating bad incentives. They work in broad strokes, so the closer anyone gets to trying to micromanage a specific outcome the more obvious it becomes