To reduce the chances of being
outsmarted
Every organization has the
potential problem that intelligent criminals deceive the majority of
members. This problem affects all nations. For
two examples:
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In the 1990s, the
Santa Barbara city officials proposed reducing the funding of the fire
department in order to reduce the city's expenses so that they did not
have to increase taxes.
The city officials could have reduced expenses by eliminating
some of the most unnecessary agencies, or by reducing the salaries of
the government officials, or by reducing the corruption and cheating
among
government officials.
Instead, they proposed to reduce the budget of the fire department in
an attempt to frighten
the public to such an extent that they would be willing to allow
taxes to be increased.
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In December 2023,
the BBC suggested
that
they might cancel
David Attenborough's wildlife television programs in order to reduce
expenses.
The BBC officials could have proposed eliminating the
television programs that were the most useless, or reducing the
salaries of the executives. There are also lots of ways of reducing the
labor and resources involved with producing television programs, such
as eliminating the expensive "special effects", or having narrators
read from teleprompters or sheets of paper rather than memorize
speeches.
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eliminate a program that people wanted, they were hoping to upset the
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The people who rise to
the top positions of free enterprise systems and democracies tend to be
selfish, diabolical, and abusive. Their purpose for getting into
influential positions is to satisfy their cravings for material wealth
and status, not
to improve our lives or culture.
The only way to ensure that our leaders are being honest with us is to
pass judgment on their honesty, and fire
the incompetent leaders, and evict or euthanize the dishonest leaders.
However, we cannot expect the public to provide sensible analyses of
influential people, or to have the emotional ability or desire to
remove the incompetent and dishonest leaders.
We need to create an organization with the authority to to do that, and
we must restrict the officials of their organization to men who have the emotional ability and desire to do it.
Therefore, the Quality Division has an Efficiency, Security, and Courts
Ministries to pass judgment on whether the people in influential
positions should be arrested.
Although there is no way to guarantee that the officials in those
ministries are not
outsmarted, by having all of the ministries compete to find
improvements to society, rather than compete to attract voters, we
improve the chances that somebody notices and stops the deceptive
government officials,
executives, journalists, historians, and other influential people.
To ensure dishonest leaders are evicted
None of the existing
cultures have any standards for their leaders, so people who have been
convicted of crimes are allowed to become government officials,
business
executives, journalists, and other influential people.
For example, when Peter Strzok was
caught trying to manipulate and deceive us about Donald Trump, the
FBI's employee disciplinary office recommended that he be suspended for
60 days and demoted. He was eventually fired, and has since
become an adjunct professor at a university, and a
book he recently wrote about the "Threat of Donald Trump" has been
published.
 When
we fire a government official for committing crimes, and then
allow him to educate students and become an author, we are behaving
like a stupid
animal
that doesn't care which animal getd into the top position of the
hierarchy.
In order to eliminate dishonest leaders, we must restrict the Quality
Division to people who have enough control over their craving to
be submissive to our leaders that they can evict or euthanized a dishonest government
official, journalist, scientist, or business executive.
To ensure incompetent leaders are fired
No culture requires
government officials, business executives, journalists, professors, or
anybody else to justify what they do, and if they decide to justify
what they do, they can use idiotic remarks, such as:" It is for the
protection of the public", or " It is for national security",
and " It
will provide people with jobs."
No culture has a quality control agency that analyzes the policies of
the government officials, or holds them accountable for what they do.
This lack of quality control allows government officials to create
idiotic policies. For example, government officials do not need to
provide sensible justification for restricting a medical drug to
prescription only.
Requiring a medical product to be by prescription only
is putting a burden on society, and especially on the people who
benefit from the medical product. Therefore, the government should
require prescriptions only if
they can
show that the prescriptions provide benefits that outweigh their
burden.
However, the democratic governments are restricting almost all
medical drugs and products to prescription only. They don't care
whether there is any benefit to those restrictions.
For example, there are some devices that can be attached to a person's
arm to measure blood glucose levels. People with diabetes can use them
to monitor their blood sugar so that they don't have to frequently poke
themselves with needles in order to analyze a blood sample. In
March 2024, the FDA allowed
one of those devices to be available without a prescription, but the
others require prescriptions.
What is the benefit to having those devices by prescription only? There
is no black-market for those devices, and there are no crime networks
selling them, and the hospitals are not treating people for misusing
those devices. Even the stupid and irresponsible people can use
them without hurting themselves.
Nobody would be harmed if those devices were available without a
prescription. Most people do not want one, even if they were
available for free. Most of the people who want them are people with
diabetes, and the people who want to use them for a
month or so in order to learn about their blood sugar levels.
Likewise, most of the other drugs and medical devices that require
prescriptions are of interest only to a few people, so
the prescriptions are a burden with no benefit.
In a democracy, the public is supposed to provide quality control for
the government, but the public cannot do that. The public has allowed
the
officials in the FDA, FBI, and other agencies to be incredibly
incompetent, dishonest, and mentally ill.
The FDA justifies prescriptions by claiming that the prescriptions are
"protecting" people, but the only people who might possibly be
protected by prescriptions are the adults who are stupid, mentally
ill, senile, or retarded. However, it is more sensible to put the
incompetent adults on restrictions, just like we do with children,
rather than make everybody suffer with prescriptions.
The prescriptions and other laws are doing nothing to stop people from
abusing heroin, steroids, fentanyl, cocaine, alcohol, nicotine,
steroids,
caffeine,
aspirin, sugar, automobiles, soda, donuts, state lotteries, jewelry, or
any of the other things that people are abusing or hurting themselves
with.
There are some people who are tormenting themselves by letting their
house become cluttered with items, and there are other people
tormenting themselves with
financial problems as a result of expensive college
courses, excessive shopping, or gambling, but laws cannot stop those
problems, either.
In the USA, there is such a strong "Feel Sorry For Me" attitude that
the government, businesses, schools, and other organizations are under
pressure to adjust their policies, products, laws, and activities to
help the worst behaved and most incompetent people. However, our
attempts to stop people from causing hurting themselves are failures. We must push ourselves
into experimenting with different
policies.
This
Constitution requires the government officials to design culture for
the City
Elders, rather than the worst behaved people.
The adults who are too incompetent to
handle medical drugs, blood glucose monitoring devices, alcohol, and
other things must be classified as
inferior people. They must be put on restrictions, such as
prohibiting them from reproducing, getting into influential positions,
and having access to certain products or social clubs. It is foolish to
put everybody on restrictions
in an attempt to prevent the inferior people from their
self-destructive behavior.
The Social Clubs Minister is authorized to create clubs that provide
people with medical equipment, and people are allowed to experiment
with medical drugs. Instead of putting
restrictions on the medical drugs and products, the executives of the
clubs must prohibit the children and adults who are incompetent,
irresponsible, or obnoxious from having access to the club. This will
allow the higher-quality people
to have access to the medical products.
By having a Quality Control Division that is independent of the other
government agencies, and by giving them the authority to demand
government
officials provide explanations for their policies, they will be able to
fire the government officials who create idiotic and detrimental
policies, such as an official who restricts blood glucose monitoring
devices to prescription only.
The Quality Control Division also has the authority to pass judgment on
the
behavior and value of business executives, journalists, scientists, and
other influential people. This cannot guarantee that we have excellent
leadership, but it will significantly improve our chances that the
incompetent
and dishonest people are removed from influential positions.
The
Efficiency Ministry can help stop loopholes
The Courts Ministry is
required to be intolerant of loopholes, but to help ensure that people
in influential positions are not outsmarting the Courts Ministry, one
of the purposes of the Efficiency Ministry is to pass judgment on
whether somebody is trying to use a loophole.
For an example, in October 2024, the Federal Trade Commission prohibited
businesses from using " tricks
and traps" that " make
people jump through endless hoops just to cancel a subscription".
They also proposed
prohibiting " corporations from
running up the bills with hidden and bogus fees, requiring honest
pricing and spurring firms to compete on honesty rather than deception".
However, instead of creating those laws, the government should have
interpreted their existing laws as prohibiting that behavior. By
creating new laws, they allow the dishonest and abusive business
executives to remain in leadership positions, and they encourage other
business executive to look for loopholes
A more sensible policy is to require everybody to understand the purpose of the
law, and not allow people to argue over the words in the law. This is one reason
why
the Cities Council of the World Government has the authority to fire a
President.
The Laws document points
out that laws are useful only
to the people who are capable
of understanding
them, and who are
willing
to use them. We cannot stop crime with
laws that prohibit the crimes. The only way to ensure that the people
in
a city are behaving properly is to set high standards for
the people, and evict the
abusive people.
We must demand that our leaders behave better than the public. They
should be excellent role models. When we find one of our leaders
justifying his abusive behavior by saying there was no law against it,
our response should be that he should have a better understanding of
the purpose of the laws than the public. We should not have to
tell our
leaders
how to behave, or what the laws mean.
We
need to be pressured to be serious
Our natural tendency is to
entertain ourselves, but our emotions evolved for a very primitive era,
so a lot of what we find entertaining today is destructive, wasteful,
or irritating.
For example, in order to cause an ape to want to take care of its
children, we
developed emotions that are entertained by the idiotic behavior of
children,
rather than irritated by it. For example, we giggle when they stumble
as they try to walk, or when they do "baby talk". However, giggling at
that behavior can encourage the children to continue doing it rather to
than
improve themselves.
Prehistoric people had to work every day, so even though the mothers
would giggle at their children's idiotic behavior, they would put their
children under pressure to help with chores and learn how to take care
of themselves.
The prehistoric women might have giggled at the silly behavior of
adults, also, but they were not
attracted to adult men who acted like children. They wanted men who
could take care of a family.
Today we are no longer under pressure to teach children to take care of
themselves, and women are no longer under pressure to find a man who
can take care of them. This is allowing mothers to pamper their
children to an excess, and to be entertained by adult men who behave
like children.
Our emotions are so stupid that we can be entertained when adults
behave in a manner that is similar to that of a child. This has
resulted in television companies producing blooper videos, which
are excerpts of adults making mistakes during the production of a
television program.
It has also resulted in citizens posting their own versions of blooper
videos on the Internet in which adults are stumbling, tripping,
breaking objects,
mispronouncing words, dropping their cell phone in a swimming pool, and
slipping on a wet or icy surface.
It can be useful to create videos of people making mistakes if the
video is intended to help people understand how to avoid those
mistakes. For example, the US Chemical Safety and Hazard Investigation
Board created this
video that describes an explosion that burned 14 workers to death at a
sugar factory.
Not many people realize that sugar is just one of many common items
that can be explosive when it is in a powdered form. That type of video
educates us about accidents, rather than entertains us. Its purpose is
to help us understand why those accidents happened, and how to prevent
them in the future.
However, when we treat mistakes as
entertainment, we encourage people to deliberately
make mistakes in order to become the center of attention. This problem
is most easily noticed with children. Specifically, when parents giggle
at the mistakes of their children, or their "baby talk", the children
often respond by deliberately acting childish.
The parents who encourage their children to act silly are using their
children as masturbation objects to titillate themselves with. They are
treating their children like circus animals. It is even more
destructive to giggle at the stupid behavior of adults
because that encourages adults to behave like children
YouTube adds to the problem by providing money to people who create
popular videos, and that has resulted in many adults deliberately
behaving in stupid or childish manners in order to attract our
attention.
The businesses that produce television advertisements add to the
problem because a popular style of advertisement is having adults
behave in
child-like manners. Those advertisements are using childish behavior to
stimulate our emotional attraction to children in order to increase
their profits, and we ought to be disgusted
that businesses are treating us in that manner. Those businesses are exploiting us, not respecting us.
This constitution improves the situation by requiring every person and
organization to treat other people as friends.
Since the government has complete control of culture, they can
experiment with methods to discourage or prohibit the blooper videos,
and encourage both children and adults to become impressive role models
rather than obnoxious and clumsy clowns.
One method of reducing the blooper videos is to alter the way we create
videos so that people make fewer mistakes in the narration. For
example, instead of having people memorize speeches and look into the
camera as they speak, they can read from a Teleprompter or sheet of
paper.
We want people to look at us when they are talking to us, but we don't
need to satisfy that emotional craving, especially not when we are
watching educational documentaries. We should be paying attention to
the images and the information, not the person's face and mouth.
We titillate our emotions when the narrators pretend to be in the room
with us and look at us, but that illusion will not improve
our lives, and we will not suffer if
the narrator is reading from a sheet of paper or Teleprompter, or if he
is not visible to us.
Since we are animals, we want to look at the people who speak to us,
and
we want them to look at us, but every adult should have enough
education and intelligence to realize that when we look at a person on
a television monitor we are
looking at an image of a
person, not a
real person. We should also realize that he is looking at a camera, not
at us.
Nobody has such a perfect memory that he can give a
speech without making mistakes occasionally. Therefore, requiring
narrators to memorize speeches requires the television crew to
repeatedly record the narration until he does it correctly. That is a
waste of labor and
resources, and it can irritate the people who have to produce and edit
the video.
The purpose of the Efficiency Ministry is to improve other government
agencies and organizations, so they have the authority to prohibit the
Television Ministry from having people memorize speeches. The
Efficiency Ministry can demand the narrators read from teleprompters,
laptop computer, cell phones, or paper.
It is also acceptable to
display the text that the narrator is reading. That would be especially
useful when the narrator is using technical words that are not well
known, or when he is describing a complex topic. That also allows
people to pause the video to read the text to get a better
understanding of
what was said.
Another trick that the television businesses are doing is to frequently
show
the face of a person who is listening to a
conversation. For example, when there are two people having a
conversation, the video editor will alternate back and forth between
showing the face of the person who is talking and showing the face of
the person who is listening.
Creating that type of documentary is a waste of time of the camera
operators and the video editors. It does not improve
the documentary. It merely titillates the audience because it makes us
feel as
if we are in the room with the people, and looking at all of them.
Therefore, the Efficiency Ministry should prohibit the Television
Ministry from using that trick.
Another justifiable reduction in labor and resources is for the
Efficiency Ministry to require the Television Ministry to prohibit
music in the educational documentaries. The educational
videos should be serious, not
entertaining. Music should be restricted to entertainment programs.
The existing quality agencies are failures
All nations have agencies
that provide functions that are similar
to that of the Quality Division. For example, the USA has the USDA, the
FDA, police departments, the FBI, and courts. All of those agencies
occasionally do something beneficial, but all of them are failures at understanding and
reducing crime, corruption, and mistakes. We must set much higher
standards for government officials in order for those agencies to be
truly useful.
In order to provide the Quality Division, and the other government
divisions, with better leadership, this constitution makes some
significant cultural changes. For example:
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Voting is restricted.
Only five men are allowed to
vote, and
that allows us to set high standards for the voters. Although this has
the potential of becoming a dystopian society, it also has the
potential of providing excellent leadership. Which type of
leadership we end up with depends upon our ability and desire to get
involved with passing judgment on the performance of the voters and
other influential people.
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Security personnel must meet high standards.
None of the existing
nations require sheriffs, lawyers, judges, or anybody else in the
quality control agencies to meet any sensible standards for
education,
intelligence, self
control, or previous
achievements.
Although some agencies require the officials to have
a college diploma, the school systems as of 2025 are still so crude
that students can get diplomas even if they have serious mental
disorders, cannot understand evolution, and are so deceived and
ignorant that they believe that
the United Nations created Israel and that Nazis killed 6 million Jews.
The existing school systems are giving us leaders who have unrealistic and dishonest views of human behavior
and history.
Our law enforcement agencies have leaders who cannot even set sensible
priorities for themselves. For example, law enforcement agencies around
Europe recently worked together
to stop a group of people who were providing over 22 million people
with free movies and television shows, but that crime is one of the least
important in the world as of 2025.
It is more important for the law
enforcement agencies to investigate the blackmail by Jeffrey Epstein
and Sean Combs, and the accusations of David Shurter, Vicki Polin,
Jenny Guskin, and others who claim to be victims of a pedophile network
that is being protected by the government officials.
The police agencies are more interested in protecting the
royalties of Hollywood and television businesses than they are in
protecting us from pedophiles, crime networks, and corrupt government
officials.
Furthermore, stopping a network from providing free movies will not
necessarily increase the profits of the television businesses by a
noticeable amount because many of those
22 million people might not be willing to pay for the movies.
Therefore, it is possible that Europe spent more money to stop the
crime than they are going to provide to the television and movie
businesses. And now they will waste more money punishing those people
in jail.
It is necessary for us to stop crime, but we should be concerned with
the most serious crimes first. It is more important for the security
agencies and militaries to investigate the accusations that Jews are
responsible for the world wars, the 9/11 attack, and lots of other
crimes.
There have been so many accusations of pedophiles in the British
government that it is also much more important for the British police
to investigate the naked boy who was climbing
out of a window at Buckingham palace, rather than assume that it was an
advertisement for a television show.
We must raise standards for people involved with security and law
enforcement. The American culture allows a person to become a lawyer
simply by passing some tests
to verify that he can memorize a lot of laws and previous
legal cases, which is as worthless
as allowing a person to become a scientist simply because he
can memorize the work of other scientists.
This constitution requires people in the top leadership positions to
show that they have an above-average understanding of evolution,
history, and
human behavior, and that they have demonstrated the ability to provide
us with intelligent analyses of our social problems.
The courts are required to provide analyses
of crimes, and provide advice
on how we might reduce crime, but a person who
refuses to believe in evolution cannot
provide us with sensible analyses or advice. Likewise, a person who
believes in the Holocaust, the Apollo moon
landing, and other propaganda cannot provide useful leadership.
Setting higher standards for government officials cannot
guarantee that we have high quality leadership, but it is better than
allowing people to become government officials simply because they have
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Secrecy must be eliminated.
All existing
cultures provide government officials, and everybody else, with
tremendous secrecy
about
their physical and mental health, and what they do during the workday
and during their leisure time. This gives them the opportunity to
conspire with one another to abuse and exploit us, and it makes it
difficult for us to determine whether they are doing anything of value
during the work day.
Eliminating secrecy cannot
guarantee high quality leadership, but it
makes it much more difficult for the mentally ill, dishonest, and
incompetent officials to hide their atrocious behavior and mental
disorders. It also makes
it more difficult for crime networks to
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A
government should
never suffer from stalemates
The presidents can make
decisions for their division without asking for
the approval of other presidents, but there will occasionally be times
when the presidents must deal with a policy that affects two or more of
the other divisions, in which case the presidents must agree
on a policy.
A common problem with governments is that the officials cannot agree on
a policy, and they end up wasting months or years
arguing with each other, and they sometimes give up and do nothing about the problem, such
as the Santa Barbara officials who do nothing
to reduce the noise of
the private airplanes.
In order to prevent stalemates, if the presidents do not resolve a
conflict within a month, or if they vote to continue
looking into it as a way of doing nothing about it, the Courts Ministry
has the authority to pass judgment on whether they are making sensible
decisions, and if not, the Courts Ministry can fire one or all of the
presidents, thereby forcing the voters to select new presidents.
This constitution promotes replacing
leaders who cannot solve problems, rather than tolerating
their excuses for failure, and rather than punishing or rehabilitating
them.
The
presidents must be allowed
to vote
The U.S. Constitution does
not require government officials to vote on issues. This allows
cheating.
For example, most of the Republican officials, especially in the
Senate, opposed the Federal
Reserve Act, and there are accusations that the people who wanted the
Federal Reserve Act arranged for the Senate to vote on it on 23
December 1913 because that was when a lot of the Republicans had gone
home for Christmas vacation. If that accusation is accurate, the people
who
arranged for the vote on that day should be regarded as criminals.
In order to prevent cheating, when the presidents have
to resolve an issue, all three of them are required to vote.
Part-time
officials are encouraged
The Quality division
encourages people to become part-time and temporary officials. The
reasons for
advocating part-time jobs are
explained here,
and
the following reasons are specific to the Quality division:
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knowledge
A person can become a
temporary official in the Quality Division when the government is
dealing with an
issue that he feels he has something to contribute. For a simple
example, when the Products or Efficiency Ministry is reviewing policies
for GPS coverage in the city, an engineer or scientist who is
knowledgeable about that issue can apply to become a temporary or
part-time official so
that he can get directly involved with the analysis or
decisions.
He will be able to do that work on either a part-time
or full-time basis. When the task has been completed, his job
as a quality official terminates.
This policy allows us to have quality officials who are knowledgeable
about the
issues being investigated. By comparison, if we were to have permanent,
full-time quality
officials, they would be familiar with a only few subjects, which means
that most of their decisions will be about issues that they don't
know much about, which in turn makes them dependent upon whoever they
choose to provide them with information.
It would be more useful and efficient to let the people who are
knowledgeable about the issue to have the authority, and let them be
responsible for the decisions.
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of opinions
A government agency knows only as much as the people in the agency.
Therefore, when an agency encourages people to become
part-time and temporary officials for the issues that they are
knowledgeable about, the agency knows as much as everybody
who is willing to get involved with the decisions. Examples of this are:
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Artificial
intelligence software.
Some people are promoting a fear of AI software, and some are
advocating
restrictions on it. Unfortunately, not many people in the
government agencies know anything about computer software. They are
dependent upon other people's
opinions, but if they get the opinions of criminals, wealthy people,
business executives, investors, or paranoid
people, they will give us idiotic or abusive policies.
By having a government that encourages part-time officials, we
increase
the chances that people with exceptional talent and knowledge will get
involved,
and those people will provide us with more sensible decisions.
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Rockets and space exploration.
NASA, SpaceX, and other organizations are designing rockets and
research projects in secrecy. They have no
obligation to let any of us know about or get involved with the
decisions.
By eliminating secrecy, and by giving citizens the opportunity to
become temporary officials, when there are proposals for rockets or
space exploration projects, the part-time officials will give the
government a wider variety of opinions, which increases the chances
that we get better decisions.
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Increasing the number of people involved with making decisions has the
disadvantage of increasing the number of disagreements, but by
eliminating secrecy and
keeping track of
what everybody says and does in the People
database, we will eventually notice who is contributing the most
intelligent analyses to the discussions, and who is most likely to
cause trouble by promoting selfish or idiotic policies, or by having
tantrums, or by making insulting remarks. This will allow us to make
better
decisions about who to hire as a part-time official.
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Encouraging people to
become temporary officials in the Quality Division will encourage
people to look for
opportunities to improve something about society, such as a
manufacturing
operation, a recreational or social activity, a software program, or a
footpath in a city park.
For example, a person who
knows nothing about computers could complain about the confusing
aspects of a software program, and he
could request that he become a part-time and temporary official in the
Products Ministry
so that he can get involved with testing the improved version to ensure
that the programmers have truly improved it.
Likewise, a machinist could complain that the panel on his CNC machine
is so complicated that he and other machinists frequently forget how
to use it, or that it
requires them to push too many buttons and knobs. He could request the
opportunity to become a part-time and temporary official so
that he can participate in testing the improved version to ensure that
it really is an improvement.
Another example of the value of citizens becoming part-time quality
control officials is in regards to the blood glucose monitoring
devices, that were mentioned at the beginning of this document. Some of
the users of those devices are posting videos on the Internet in which
they complain about the device, or to provide information about the
devices. Two of the reasons that people are posting those videos are:
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Businesses produce propaganda.
The main page for the Stelo
device has a video but it is just an advertisement with music. It
doesn't explain anything. Their document "How does it work" doesn't
provide any information about how it works, either.
In a free enterprise system, the videos and documents that businesses
provide are attempts to manipulate us
into purchasing their
product. They goal is profit, not
educating us about their products, or
improving our lives, or improving our culture.
Furthermore, they design their advertisements and information according
to the mental characteristics of their potential customers. For most
businesses, that is the "ordinary" people, most of whom have no desire to learn or think, and
most of whom are of average intelligence.
The end result is that the businesses produce advertisements, videos,
and documents that are primarily music, colorful images, and people who
are smiling to an excess. Most
of their videos and documents are as worthless as political
advertisements.
Businesses have no incentive to provide us with useful information, so
we get a better
explanation of their products from their customers.
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All products have irritating
features or limitations.
No product can be described as "perfect". When managers authorize the
production of a product, they are simply making a decision on when it
has been developed enough to offer it for sale. However, the businesses
will not be honest and admit that their product has limitations or
imperfections. Therefore, we benefit by listening to their customer's
complaints.
The man who posted this analysis
of two different glucose monitoring devices complained that the Stelo
software discards data after 24 hours. He tried to take a screenshot of
the data to save it for himself, but he said it would not take a
screenshot, and he thinks it is because the company is trying to
protect his "personal" and "private" health data.
This woman
complains that the FDA recommends people install the device on the back
of their arm, but she says that is very inconvenient for her, and she
recommends several other locations.
Those customers provide us with important information about products
that the businesses refuse to acknowledge or deal with.
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By allowing the public to become temporary government officials, the
people who notice problems with products, and who have the initiative
to complain about them or suggest improvements, will have the authority
to put
pressure on engineers to improve their
products.
In a free enterprise system, the engineers are under pressure
to create products that are profitable,
which results in them constantly developing "new and improved"
products, often with "lemon freshness", but this Constitution puts them
under pressure to create products that improve
our lives.

Organizations
are prohibited from trying to manipulate us.
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Furthermore, the businesses will be under pressure to create documentation
for their products that is easy to understand, and
provide useful information. They cannot
create advertisements, or
ignore the disadvantages of their product, or titillate us with photos
of people
who are smiling excessively.
Businesses cannot have their own Internet sites, either. The Database
Council of the World Government maintains all of the documents about products,
and other information that businesses are currently providing
on their Internet sites, so businesses do not need their own
sites to provide product information. The Jobs Ministry maintains a
list of all jobs, so
businesses do
not need an Internet site to advertise jobs.
The businesses are restricted to designing, repairing, and
manufacturing
products. They cannot promote themselves or their products, or fight
with other
businesses. They must be inspirational
to their competitors, not
aggressive, and they must treat customers as their friends rather than as profit
opportunities.
Furthermore, businesses cannot resist technology that will put them out
of business. For example, the organization travellemming.com is
afraid that AI software will put them out of business, and so they display
an "honest warning", as of December 2024:
This year’s introduction also comes
with an honest warning: corporate billionaires like Google CEO Sundar
Pichai and OpenAI CEO Sam Altman want to use AI slop to replace not
only travel blogs like ours...
Their attitude is as unacceptable
as a fire department giving us:
This year's introduction also comes
with an honest warning: corporate billionaires want to use AI to
produce fireproof homes to eliminate fire departments like ours.
With this Constitution, a business exists only to improve life for us, so it
is eliminated when it is no longer beneficial. No business is allowed
to resist technical improvements that will make it unnecessary.
All of the employees of the business are employees of the city, and
their goal is to improve life for the people, not help the business, or promote
their particular products.
This concept of putting pressure on engineers to improve their
products rather than promote their
products applies to our social clubs, recreational activities, city
plazas, foot paths, and other culture. Specifically, the goal of
everybody is to improve our culture, not promote any particular
customs.
People are encouraged to improve anything they can think of,
including questions on tests. For example, the SAT tests that Americans
use to determine who should
go to college require people to excel at math, but very few people need
to use math in their job or their personal life. Therefore, a person
could complain that those tests are as worthless as testing a person's
ability to produce flint arrowheads, and that the tests should be
adjusted according to what type of jobs the person is interested in
getting.
For another example, people who want a drivers license in California
often have to answer questions that are similar to this:
It is illegal
for a person 21 years of age or older to drive with a blood alcohol
concentration (BAC) that is _____ or higher.
a) 0.08%
b) 0.10%
c) 0.04%
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The problem with that type of question is that nobody has any idea of
what their blood alcohol concentration is. That type of question
is useful only
for the
people who analyze blood alcohol levels, such as police
officers and autopsy personnel.
By encouraging people to improve our
culture, a person could post a suggestion that it would be more
beneficial for the public to understand and answer questions about the quantity
of alcoholic drinks that can impair our mind, and the time it
takes for our body to eliminate the alcohol. For example, a person
could suggest that the question would be more relevant if it was
similar to this:
How much 5%
alcohol beer
will give the typical adult man a blood alcohol level in the
illegal range for driving vehicles?
a) Half a liter.
b) One liter.
c) Two liters.
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Knowing the answer to that type of question would be useful for everybody in a society that permits
alcohol, including the people who do not
drink. By comparison, knowing the percentage of blood alcohol that is
illegal is useless
information, unless we have access to devices that can measure blood
alcohol.
The person who posted that suggestion could also request to be a
temporary official in the
Efficiency Ministry so that he has some authority to
ensure that the educational curriculum and test questions are improved.
All progress comes
from trivial improvements
Changing one question on a test will not do much to improve our lives,
but by repeatedly finding "trivial" improvements to our educational
programs and tests, people will become better educated, and we will
improve the procedures for determining who qualifies as a pilot,
dentist, government official, scientist, and doctor.
Likewise, by finding "trivial" improvements to software, bicycles,
holiday
celebrations, courtship activities, work environments, refrigerators,
drones, clothing items, foot paths, drainage canals, and plumbing
fixtures, we slowly improve our
city, products, and lives. By comparison, if
we do nothing to improve our culture, nothing
will improve.
All of the scientific progress that has been occurring during the past
few thousand years has been "trivial"
improvements to previous
technology. We must apply that concept to culture. We are fools to
ignore or ridicule "trivial" improvements to culture.
The people who find improvements to educational programs, work
environments, city festivals, recreational activities, the documents in
this constitution, and other
culture will have that achievement listed as a success in their
database entry. That will help them to become one of the City Elders.
Those type of achievements will also improve a person's chance of
becoming a government official, which will give us
government officials who have a history of finding improvements to
culture.

Would the head
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For another example of how "ordinary" people can improve our products
and culture, a technician who is
repairing industrial equipment might notice that a lot of the bolts
that are required to hold a tremendous force are
breaking at the head, and that might cause him to wonder if redesigning
the bolts to have an arc at
the transition between the body and the
head would reduce the problem, as shown in the diagram to the
right. (Also mentioned here.)
In a free enterprise system, it is difficult for a person to
investigate
such issues because it requires finding financial support, and finding
people with
the technical talent to do an
appropriate investigation.
However, with this constitution, the technician would be able to
discuss his idea for bolts on the Public
message board in order to get
the opinions of people who know more about engineering and bolts.
If he gets confirmation from some engineers that his idea is
potentially useful, then he, or somebody else, could post his idea in
the Suggestions
category. If a minister considers his idea to be worth investigating,
the
minister would authorize an investigation of it.
The technician would not have the knowledge or experience to help the
engineers with the design
of the bolt, but he could ask to become a part-time and
temporary official in the Products Ministry so that he can participate
in the testing of the bolts so
that he can ensure that the bolts are tested in the same equipment that
has
caused the heads to break off. That would enable him to provide the
engineers with feedback on how well the bolts are working in real
situations.
In the description of the Quality Division, I pointed out that my
thermometer had a broken
wire. Another problem with that thermometer is that, after a couple of
years, the on-off button,
which is a push button, required an increasingly powerful force to turn
it on and off.
I
disassembled it and discovered that the switch is a
rubber pad that makes contact with copper traces on the circuit board.
The red arrows in the photo to the right point to the rubber pad and
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The photo below shows the copper traces, although they look like silver
rather than copper.

The photo below shows the round rubber pad. It has squares of some type
of conductive material embedded in it, and when the switch is
depressed, it presses those squares against the copper traces.

For some reason, the copper traces and the rubber pad had accumulated
some type of film that acted like an electrical insulator.
When I cleaned the traces and the rubber pad, it began working properly.
Since the thermometer is used in kitchens, which have high levels of
moisture, oil, food particles, and people with messy, damp, and wet
fingers, the switch should be completely sealed. However, in a free
enterprise system, businesses benefit when their products fail, and the
customer purchases a new one.
For another example, I bought a sous vide device from ANOVA, and
after several years the rod that was turning the tiny propeller to move
the water would occasionally resonate, creating a loud
noise. It triggered memories of the Tacoma Narrows Bridge vibrating
to such an extent that it destroyed itself.
I could stop the noise by unplugging the device and starting it again,
but as the months passed, it would do it more often. One day turning it
on and off would not stop the noise.

I cut
off the bottom of the tubular metal casing, which exposes the heating
coils and the spinning propeller.
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I could stop the resonating by widening the opening in the black
plastic cap at the bottom of the tubular metal casing, but that worked
for only a few weeks.
Then I cut off about an inch from the bottom of the metal casing, as
seen in the photo to the right.
The coils in the photo are the heating element, and the red arrow
points to the black, spinning propeller that would resonate once in a
while.
That caused it to resonate less frequently, but it did not stop it
completely.
I suppose the bearing is failing, so I just purchased the less
expensive
BlitzHome SV-2209 so that when it fails
I won't have wasted as much money. It is working very nicely, but it
has the
disadvantage of not retaining the temperature that I had previously set
it for,
so every time I use it I have to set the temperature.
Products today are such low quality that it seems like we have to
purchase a new set of devices for our home every few years. The price
and the brand name doesn't seem to have any effect on the quality.
I have complained about a lot of products, but I doubt that
I am having more problems with products than other people. Many of the
older adults that I personally know have had so many products fail that
they have developed the attitude that many businesses today are
deliberately
designing products to have a short lifetime.
However, that is a terrible
attitude for people to have. We should not
regard our business leaders as selfish, greedy freaks who abuse us for
profit. We
should admire their talent, and be grateful for their leadership.

My
juicer is working after at least 60 years.
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Some of the products that were passed on to us by our parents are still
working. An example is the Proctor Silex juicer that my mother
gave me. It still works fine, and the electrical cord still looks
perfect.
She gave it to me because she decided to buy a "new and improved"
juicer, but she was disappointed to discover that it had less power, so
it did an inferior job, and it broke after just a couple of years.
The engineers who designed the Proctor Silex juicer did such a good job
that it is still in
great shape after at least 60 years. One of my neighbors also has
one of those juicers from her mother, and it still works for her.
The used versions of that particular juicer are still being sold
on the Internet, and many of them might continue to be functioning one
or two centuries from today.

The
prongs of the ANOVA plug (on the left) are solid metal, but the Proctor
Silex prongs are "springy" so they grip the socket better.
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Another nice feature of the Proctor Silex juicer is that prongs on the
electrical plug of the juicer form a type of spring that makes a good
contact with the electrical socket.
Te prongs on the ANOVA sous vide device are solid metal, which doesn't
grip as well with the electrical socket in my kitchen, so I had to bend
the prongs slightly to stop them from losing the electrical connection
when the cord was touched or vibrated.
Some electrical plugs have the problem of getting hot, perhaps because
the wires inside the cord do not make good contact with the prongs in
the plug, or because the prongs are not making good contact with the
electrical socket.

I added
the brass valve to the drainage valve to stop it from leaking. The gray
plastic connector is to provide a more orderly flow of water.
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I mentioned
that the water heater that I purchased in 1993 lasted until 2016,
almost 24 years, but the water heater that I purchased in 2016 began
leaking water at the drainage valve in 2024, about eight years.
Fortunately I could fix the problem by adding a brass shut off valve to
it, and that turned out to be beneficial because I can now get instant
hot water for my sous vide machine and other purposes without having to
wait for water to heat up at the kitchen sink.
In a free enterprise system, only some of the businesses seem to be improving
their products, such the businesses that produce automobiles and
computer components. Most other businesses seem to be producing inferior
products compared to what they were producing 50 years ago.
In order to improve our products and other culture, this Constitution:
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Encourages everybody to post
complaints and suggestions about products, work environments,
recreational activities, social affairs, bike paths, and everything
else about our culture. The government officials are required to respond to the
suggestions, which will force them to investigate problems.
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Allows people to become temporary
quality control officials so that they
can get involved with testing the changes that are made to the products
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The ministers
do not have to pander to consumers or businesses, so they can force
changes to products and culture without caring what the public or the
businesses want or fear. This allows them to make changes to products
and culture instantly.
For example, if somebody
developed an electrical plug that was more reliable and less likely to
get hot, it would be almost impossible to convince the businesses and
citizens to switch to it.
However, the ministers control the entire economy, so
they can force the businesses to stop manufacturing the old plugs and
start creating the new plugs. They could even authorize the replacement
of the existing plugs if they felt that it was worth the labor and
resources to do so.
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In a free enterprise system, people who have complaints about products
have to send their complaints to the company, or post complaints on the
Internet, and then hope somebody does something about the problem.
However, businesses have no obligation to listen to customer
complaints, or make any attempt to solve the problems that people
complain about.
Furthermore, if a company decides to improve one of their products,
they are not likely to let the person who complained about it become
part of the team that tests the improved version. They are more likely
to let their own employees test it, which might be result in
unrealistic testing because their employees might be more
ignorant about the product than the customers who have been using it
for years.
For example, I and other people have complained about this
"new and improved" Contigo mug, and I made this
video in 2019 about it, and this
video about my attempt to improve it, but as of December 2024, the
company is continuing to sell that "improved" version.
It is possible
that the company tested that "new and improved" mug with people who did
not have any experience with the previous version, so they did
not realize that the previous version was more comfortable and
reliable. It is also possible that the Contigo executives
don't care about complaints because the mug is continuing
to
sell.
By encouraging people with complaints about products, software, foot
paths, bicycle paths, city plazas, swimming areas, recreational
activities, and other aspects of the city, to become
part-time and temporary quality officials, we encourage people to get involved with looking ways to
improve all aspects of the city.
Even if a person doesn't have the intelligence or education to improve
a product or custom, he can become a temporary quality official to ensure that the problem he noticed
is being dealt with.
Laboratory testing
is not good enough
One of the problems with creating or improving material items is that
we cannot be certain how useful something is simply by testing it in a
laboratory. There are a lot of material items that have to be used by
consumers for many years before we can be certain whether the
product has the lifetime that we expect, and that it can handle
the different conditions that they must deal with.

A tire
testing machine
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Engineers often build special machines to put material items through
tests, such as the tire testing machine in the photo to the right,
but the best test is to use the item.
Therefore, the engineers will do a better job of improving their
products when the public is encouraged to post their complaints about
items, and when the public can get involved with the government to
ensure that the engineers truly fix the problem.
This concept is even more important with culture. It is impossible to test new culture in a
laboratory. The only way to determine whether we can have created an
improved holiday celebration, social club, recreational activity,
educational program, or work environment is to experiment with
ourselves, and observe the results over a span of months or years.
We will create better products when our economic system puts the
businesses into competition to improve our lives, rather than to make
money. For example, in a free enterprise system, toaster ovens are
designed for short
lifetimes, and to be discarded rather than repaired. In 2024 my
toaster oven was a few years old, and it began smelling
like burnt plastic, so I opened it up and discovered an electrical
component that had gotten so hot that it had split in half and was
unidentifiable. It was connected
in parallel to a similar component that was also burnt,
but it was
recognizable as a diode, and I could read "N5804".
It appears that the engineers were using two diodes as a way of
reducing the power to the top heating elements. I suppose one of the
reasons the diodes got so hot was because each diode was enclosed in
shrinkwrap tubing, and both diodes were enclosed together in another
tubing. Those casing interfered with the cooling of the diodes.
However, the primary reason the diodes were so hot might be because the
engineers were trying to save a few pennies by using only two diodes.
Most of the N5804 diodes that are for sale on the Internet are rated
for 3 amps, so two diodes could handle 6 amps, but the toaster oven is
designed for 120 volts and 1500 watts, which is 12.5 amps. That makes
me
wonder if the engineers were abusing those diodes.
Those diodes are so inexpensive that the engineers should have used
at least four diodes, but the free enterprise system puts people under
pressure to make money, rather than care about the lifetime, value,
or maintenance of a product. This results in engineers pushing
components to such an extreme that the product often fails much earlier
than it should.
We should consider a product to be unacceptable
if it become useless because of the failure of an inexpensive component. If the
inexpensive component is easily
replaced, it would not be such a
problem, but most products are not designed to be repaired by
the user.
Fortunately, I could bypass the burnt diodes, which caused the top
elements to become much hotter than they should be, but I only needed
the oven to function for a few days, until a replacement was delivered.
I was planning to buy the same oven, but as is typical in the free
enterprise system, it was no longer in production, so I had to choose
one of the "new and improved" versions. I was about to order the Black
& Decker TO3250XSB
when I
noticed this
variation had an air fry option, I
decided to try that one instead.
The description said that the "Air
Fry Technology uses high intensity hot air to...", so I assumed
that the convection fan would be a bit more powerful than the
"ordinary" convection ovens, which I hoped would make the baking a bit
quicker and spread the heat more evenly.

This is
not a
"convection oven".
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When the oven arrived, I discovered that it was not a
convection oven, even though
the product manual describes it as a "convection oven", as seen in
the photo to the right.
The description on Amazon says "Convection
technology circulates air within the oven for fast and even results
when air frying."
It did not occur to me that that remark meant that the convection fan
turns on only
when air frying.
I would not have believed that engineers, who are more intelligent
than most people, would go to the trouble of designing an oven with a
fan to circulate the air, but use the fan only for air
frying and not
for baking. That seems as
ridiculous as designing a television set that provides movies in color, but everything else
in shades of gray.
Although the oven worked very well without the convection fan, I
decided to open it up and get the fan to turn on while baking. I had to
break two metal
tabs to open it, since it was not designed to be opened, but
fortunately I could get the fan to turn on while baking simply by
disconnecting one of its wires from one terminal and attaching it to a
different terminal.
Incidentally, I didn't see any diodes in the oven, so I won't have to
worry about diodes burning up.
I was expecting the convection fan to be more powerful than my previous
oven, but the motor looks identical, and the airflow seems to be just
as gentle.

The knobs
are difficult to grip, and impossible to set when
looking at the knob at an angle.
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Another problem with the oven was that the knobs had an indentation
to
identify where the knob is pointing, but it is about 2 cm above the
panel, which makes it impossible
to figure out what the knob is pointing to when we look at the oven
from an angle, as in the photo.
Another problem with the oven is that the knobs are smooth, round
pieces of plastic with a chrome plating. If the knobs were extremely
easy to turn, that would not matter, but on
my oven, they were difficult to turn. I also discovered that the timer
knob
can be pushed onto
its shaft so far that it rubs against the oven, which creates so much
friction that the timer cannot function properly.
It is easy to turn the timer to increase
the amount of time, but takes a lot more force to go backwards. One
man, who described himself as "old", posted this
complaint on Amazon that the timer knob turned in only one direction. He apparently
could not get enough of a grip on the smooth knob to exert enough force
to turn the timer backwards. His knob might have also been pushed in
too far, creating friction.
The Schools Ministry is required
to teach children about old age. One purpose is to make engineers aware
that the skin of people beyond the age of 50 produces less
oil and moisture, which makes it more difficult for us to grip
smooth surfaces. We also lose the ability to focus on close objects, so
we need more contrast with text, and larger text.
Engineers should
be required to design knobs that are
easy to grip, are easy to see from
various viewing angles, and which have enough
divisions to give us a useful idea of what we have set the knob
to, such as the timer in the photo to the right.
In order to provide us with better products, this constitution gives
the ministers total authority over the economy, so they can prohibit the dials that they
consider to be inappropriate. This will force the engineers to choose
from one of the approved dials.
Engineers would be able to create new types of dials, and if they
create one that is considered to be useful, they will get credit for
it, but if it is rejected as inappropriate, they will have a failure in their database entry.
This puts the engineers under pressure to design products to be easy to
manufacture, understand, use, maintain, and recycle, rather than to
titillate the public.
The power cord on the oven was very short. It was long enough for my
kitchen, but it would have been more convenient for me if it connected
to the
wall socket at a right angle.

Eventually
we would be able to ask a robot to bring us the power cord of the
length and style that we want, and take back the cord we don't want.
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To improve the situation with power cords, the ministers have the
option to prohibit engineers from designing electrical products with
power cords built into them.
Most computers have a connection for a
power cord, and that allows people to get a power cord of the length
that they need, and to choose power cords that have connections that
turn 90° from the cord.
It would be inconvenient and wasteful in a free enterprise system if
toaster ovens, electric mixers, and other products required a power
cord because it would require people to purchase power cords of
different sizes and designs, and when they wanted to change the type of
power cord, there is no easy way to deal with the unwanted cords.
However, when the city owns all of the material items, and provides
them for free, the citizens and organizations would be able to pick up
the cords that they need, and return the unwanted cords. This would
allow everybody to get the cord that they want for their particular
home, office, or factory, without wasting the unwanted cords.

It is
now easy to grip the knobs and see what they are set to in any type of
lighting.
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Another problem with that oven was that it had a chrome plating, and
the text was black.
It is easy for me to read the text when the sun is coming through the
kitchen
window, as in the photo above, but it is difficult to read it in the
evening with the lighting conditions in
my kitchen where I have the oven.
So I printed a replacement on piece of white paper, and pasted it on
top of the chrome plating (photo to the right). Notice
how difficult it is to read the black text that is around the knob at
the bottom of the photo.
I also disassembled two of the knobs from my old oven and two from the
new oven, cut and trimmed them, and glued the pieces together so that
they fit on the new oven. I also added a piece of red plastic to use as
a pointer on the knobs. I did this only to the upper two knobs
because I don't use the bottom knob, which is for making toast.
Incidentally, I put a thermometer into the oven and discovered
that the temperature knob is not even close to being accurate. For
example, at
400°F, the temperature inside the oven was about 300°F. Apparently the
oven doesn't have a thermometer.
Also, the temperature differs in different locations,
so the convection fan is not doing a very good job.
The intake slots for the fan is close to the exit slots,
which is not a good method of circulating the air, but it does a good job of cooking anyway.
The best way to improve items is to
let
people use them, and encourage everybody to post
complaints about the
products in the Suggestions
category.
However, complaints are useless
if the engineers ignore them, so we should allow people who complain
about products to become temporary officials in the Products
Ministry so that they have the authority to ensure that the problems
are being solved.
This concept also applies to culture.
Specifically, people should be
encouraged to post complaints and suggestions about the recreational
activities, foot
paths, work environments, holiday celebrations, educational programs,
and other culture, and we must allow people to become temporary
officials in the Efficiency Ministry so that they have the authority to
ensure that the issues are being dealt with.
We should try to reduce the need
for technical support
To complicate the issue of improving products, we do not
always know for sure that a problem that we experience is truly a
"problem" with the product, or whether the problem is due to our
ignorance or mistakes.
The opposite is also possible. Specifically, we might assume that the
reason we are
having trouble with a product is because we are ignorant about it, when
in reality
the product has a problem.
For example, a few people asked me to help them use the software I created.
They had assumed that they were too ignorant to know how to use it, but
I
discovered that the problem was with my
software. If they had
not asked me for help, I would not have discovered the problem.
The people who provide technical support for products and software
should be aware that the customer
might be having trouble because the product or software is confusing,
or has problems.
The people in technical support should keep track of the problems and
let the engineers know about the most common problems so that they
can investigate whether they can find ways to improve the product.
Everybody's goal should be to find ways to make products and software
so easy to
use that nobody needs technical support.
In a free enterprise system, people do not want to put themselves out
of work, but this Constitution regards people who can eliminate jobs,
including their own job, as valuable citizens.
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