Is it the engineers fault? Or is this the result of antisocial business decisions?
If you’re not going to trust engineers, who are you going to place your trust in? Business men? Lawyers? Bureaucrats? Politicians?
If we’re looking at engineers as multi variable function optimizers, You’ll find that the field will be automated away in short order. And that will be one less group to trust.
Fact is, at any level, everyone has an assumption of trust for society. There are of course consequences to violating that trust. But then smart people find ways to insulate themselves from this consequences.
Regardless, the problems you speak of exist regardless of what professions exist. The real problem is how do you align incentives to align for better outcomes, and that is a hard problem to solve.
If you’re not going to trust engineers, who are you going to place your trust in? Business men? Lawyers? Bureaucrats? Politicians?
If we’re looking at engineers as multi variable function optimizers, You’ll find that the field will be automated away in short order. And that will be one less group to trust.
Fact is, at any level, everyone has an assumption of trust for society. There are of course consequences to violating that trust. But then smart people find ways to insulate themselves from this consequences.
Regardless, the problems you speak of exist regardless of what professions exist. The real problem is how do you align incentives to align for better outcomes, and that is a hard problem to solve.