Kaigangio wrote:tycho wrote:Your thoughts are bearing one assumption; that security services should be structured on market forces. In Kenya, the security system is 'isolationist' and 'central', and private participation in terms of research and development and execution of security related activity appears to be largely underdeveloped.
Hence the irrationality you are seeing comes as the disparity of rationale between the citizen and security services.
It all depends on the kind of politics we want to play, and how leadership is understood.
I made no assumption @tycho...plain fact and very simple...
Do you send a doctor to do an engineer's work and vice versa???
Jobs that are dictated by market forces may demand that a specialist be taken to his area of specialization especially after Winslow Taylor's methods.
But there are two exceptions to this rule. Firstly, when the product isn't controlled by a 'free market' then the qualifications for doing the job may depend on other qualities. For example a person like Isaac Newton was knighted for being a master of the mint not for science or philosophy.
An engineer may make an excellent criminal investigator. An accountant an excellent sharp shooter.
The other exception is when there's widespread automation and human resource capacity levels are bridged by a rich, shared and interactive information base.