When I see posts like this I think “How would I measure this over time?”
Software projects were notoriously late and brittle in prior eras. (Ask anyone supporting a mainframe that they’re afraid to reboot)
Fraud and monopolies are as old as money. (Look up the history of Wall Street and railroads)
It’s very hard to come up with good time series data so here is my wish list to test the “we are going to crap” hypothesis:
- Air Quality Index over time.
- % of the World Population with sub-0 net worth over time.
- % of World Net Worth in discovered financial crime.
- % of technology projects overbudget and overdue weighted by dollar value over time.
- % of population literate.
Some these are hard to measure. I’m open to other measures. Absent that it’s about as accurate as asking someone “Are you busier than you were 20 years ago?”
Software projects were notoriously late and brittle in prior eras. (Ask anyone supporting a mainframe that they’re afraid to reboot)
Fraud and monopolies are as old as money. (Look up the history of Wall Street and railroads)
It’s very hard to come up with good time series data so here is my wish list to test the “we are going to crap” hypothesis:
- Air Quality Index over time.
- % of the World Population with sub-0 net worth over time.
- % of World Net Worth in discovered financial crime.
- % of technology projects overbudget and overdue weighted by dollar value over time.
- % of population literate.
Some these are hard to measure. I’m open to other measures. Absent that it’s about as accurate as asking someone “Are you busier than you were 20 years ago?”