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It seems much more intentional than that.

https://www.bridgemi.com/truth-squad-companion/years-missed-...

   "Two days before former state Treasurer Andy Dillon formally recommended moving 
   Flint off Detroit water, a Michigan Department of Environmental Quality drinking 
   water safety regulator warned that using the Flint River would pose increased 
   public health risk"

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Sounds like mistrust of experts was a factor.

Also the incompetence (on an absolute scale) of relative experts, if all the people involved are even that.

Herds don't have an ALU for which to process nuance. Buckle up.

That would be a redline for me, if a critical safety decision gets axed by a bean counter I bounce.

That's basically the story of Boeing (Boing?).

Did people routinely resign in protest at Boeing? I guess part of it would have to include shouting from the rooftops which I've only done to the extent of griping to family, (I'm not well off enough to kick my former employers in the nads). Truly astounding requests/denials trickle down from the bean counters, and against all reasoning gets pushed through often to the net negative of all. But we must push on lest we be seen to be the worst of all people backtrackers.

Boeing’s decline was Jack Welch-ism played out over 2 decades: Just fire people.

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