"You can't design a system that favours irresponsible policy and then claim that the only problem is the stupidity of the people who implement that policy."

 

  Your point, which I grant and agree with, is that one ought not do that.

    But, unfortunately, "you can do that."  And that is, to greatly over-simplify things, much of the trouble today.  You can do that and do it over and over and over again.  We are perhaps going to discover whether or not this state of affairs can last much longer.

"In such an environment it is not surprising that the ills of technology should seem curable only through the application of more technology..." John W Aldridge