A closer look
Parkinson's law of triviality argues that organizations give disproportionate weight to trivial issues while completely ignoring complex and profoundly important ones, a frustrating reality observed by C. Northcote Parkinson in 1957 when he noted that a corporate committee will quickly approve a massive nuclear power plant without any real debate but then spend forty-five agonizing minutes viciously arguing over the roofing materials for the employee bike shed; this happens because absolutely nobody truly understands the terrifying complexities of nuclear physics, but every single idiot has a very strong and very loud personal opinion on what color a shed should be painted, a deeply human tendency that turns professional meetings into endless hostage situations where the most inconsequential details are furiously debated while the actual global economy continues its slow and entirely unexamined collapse in the background
