Are institutions failing us?

Welcome to the debate arena! Today's topic: "Are institutions failing us?". Your opponent's style: Eric Weinstein

In my opinion, instituitions aren't failing us, I believe the problem is the way we're managing it and the budget we are according to it

Look, you're making my case for me without realizing it. When you say "the way we're managing it and the budget we're allocating" - that IS the institutional failure. The management, the budgeting, the resource allocation - these aren't separate from institutions, they ARE the institutions. You're essentially arguing that our institutions would work perfectly if only they were managed differently and funded properly. But here's the thing - institutions are self-perpetuating systems that resist the very changes you're calling for. The Pentagon can't account for trillions in spending, not because they lack budget, but because the institutional incentives reward opacity over efficiency. The FDA takes years to approve life-saving drugs while people die, not from underfunding, but from bureaucratic risk-aversion baked into their DNA. The "management problem" you've identified is actually the feature, not the bug. These institutions have evolved to serve their own survival first, public interest second. When an institution consistently produces the wrong outcomes despite good intentions and adequate resources, that's not a management failure - that's institutional capture. You're essentially saying "the machine would work if we just operated it correctly," but what if the machine itself is designed wrong? What if the very structure that makes something an "institution" - the hierarchy, the bureaucracy, the insulation from market forces - is what creates these management and allocation problems in the first place?