DOGE Canada or DIE: Joseph Tainter and the Diversity Industrial Complex.

Locked in expenditures are undermining the capacity of liberal societies to ride the storm.

A university in Canada this morning:

The office of Anti-Racism, Equity, Diversity, Inclusion AREDI have been hosting several with different experts from across campus. and are now looking for someone to speak on the environmental impact of menstrual products and the connection between the environment and menstruation. If you have research experience in this area [please contact us]

I will be volunteering for the environmental impact of masturbation short course. Wanker jokes aside, Canada needs its own DOGE. It will be easier for any university to fire faculty and sessional staff than to cut back on this stuff — expenditure (forms of energy/complexity) that add nothing to productivity or the core mission of the institution, and arguably undermine it. We are locked in.

When this kind of expenditure becomes impossible to roll back, we are in Joseph Tainter territory: rapidly declining returns on investment, negative returns on investment and likely collapse