[mc32]

Bureaucracy and momentum can lead to rot. It’s not a bad idea to tear things down and rebuild in order to extirpate that rot and misdirection.

Companies tend to have restructurings and stack ranking. Obviously these have their downsides too. But they also serve to shake things up and reassess direction and needs. If you’re swimming in money often you can skip this till you hit the skids.

[p_j_w]

> It’s not a bad idea to tear things down and rebuild in order to extirpate that rot and misdirection.

Regardless of whether it’s actually a bad idea or not, there’s been zero effort by this administration to rebuild what’s been destroyed.

[miltonlost]

Move fast and break things is, in fact, a bad philosophy to work by and govern by. Especially when the people in charge admit to not wanting to rebuild.

[Gethsemane]

It's also all too easy to arbitrarily label something as "bureaucratic" and demand that it gets razed and rebuilt. I'm sure Palantir has some level of bureaucracy internally with all the new contracts it has won - perhaps we should also rip that apart?

Fact is that a university that must simultaneously handle education, research, publishing, estate management, legal stuff, media coverage, health and safety etc etc etc ends up being somewhat bureaucratic.

[LtWorf]

https://apnews.com/article/nuclear-doge-firings-trump-federa...

[superxpro12]

I summarily reject any notion that our "universities" are broken. This claim has been parroted around for the better part of a decade now. IT is an obvious right wing think tank target. Sprinkle in some heritage foundation too.

The reality is, these universities were independent institutions that did their jobs to teach without bias.

Only when fox news and right wing media captured all the news sources did "universities" suddenly become "liberal thinktanks".

Our science and research institutions arent broken. It never was. It's under attack by right wing propaganda to "bring them in line".

[insane_dreamer]

That's not at all what privatization does. It tears down a system built to benefit the public, and rebuilds a structure designed to profit a small number of individuals instead.

[raxxorraxor]

There certainly is a problem in universities and some of it might be a recent cultural development. It also isn't restricted to US universities either and some of it mirrors the a church that wanted to keep some knowledge under wraps. Publishing is also a perverted circus if you indeed are employed as a scientist and want to publish your work/findings.

That said, just razing everything down is probably not the solution, especially if there are indeed no ideas how to improve the current state.

[Ar-Curunir]

For that to work you need someone with good intentions doing the rebuilding. Fascists like thiel and andreesen don’t have good intentions.