{"id":635,"date":"2024-08-09T20:00:03","date_gmt":"2024-08-09T20:00:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/posse.keithlewiskeithlewis.com\/?p=635"},"modified":"2024-10-30T20:33:17","modified_gmt":"2024-10-30T20:33:17","slug":"incompetence-is-a-form-of-bias-dan-davies","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/posse.keithlewiskeithlewis.com\/index.php\/2024\/08\/09\/incompetence-is-a-form-of-bias-dan-davies\/","title":{"rendered":"\u201cIncompetence is a form of bias\u201d &#8211; Dan Davies"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>\u201cThe British planning system is a least partly one of \u201cconsultation by litigation\u201d. And the courts being \u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/www.oxfordreference.com\/display\/10.1093\/acref\/9780191826719.001.0001\/q-oro-ed4-00006117\">open to all, like the Ritz Hotel<\/a>\u201d is a joke fast approaching its centenary. This makes it a system that\u2019s biased in favour of people who can hire lawyers. Or more generally, it makes it biased in favour of organisations that can bring certain kinds of professional competence to bear in their interest.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Consequently, in my view, the cluster of professional services industries that views infrastructure permissioning as a source of fee income benefits greatly from the reduction of state capacity. \u201cIncompetence\u201d is a bit of a pejorative word, but the inability of the state to provide its own legal, environmental and engineering expertise creates a biased system\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/backofmind.substack.com\/p\/incompetence-is-a-form-of-bias\">https:\/\/backofmind.substack.com\/p\/incompetence-is-a-form-of-bias<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u201cThe British planning system is a least partly one of \u201cconsultation by litigation\u201d. And the courts being \u201copen to all, like the Ritz Hotel\u201d is a joke fast approaching its centenary. This makes it a system that\u2019s biased in favour of people who can hire lawyers. Or more generally, it makes it biased in favour&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"webmentions_disabled":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[15],"tags":[5,3,4,65],"class_list":["post-635","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-links_read","tag-extract","tag-linksread","tag-mastodon","tag-rss_source"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/posse.keithlewiskeithlewis.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/635","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/posse.keithlewiskeithlewis.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/posse.keithlewiskeithlewis.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/posse.keithlewiskeithlewis.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/posse.keithlewiskeithlewis.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=635"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/posse.keithlewiskeithlewis.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/635\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":636,"href":"https:\/\/posse.keithlewiskeithlewis.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/635\/revisions\/636"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/posse.keithlewiskeithlewis.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=635"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/posse.keithlewiskeithlewis.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=635"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/posse.keithlewiskeithlewis.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=635"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}