In this episode of The Vancrux Podcast, we explore the Shirky Principle — the uncomfortable idea that institutions often preserve the very problems they exist to fix.

From healthcare and pharmaceuticals to education, corporations, and social systems, we examine how incentives quietly shift from solving problems to managing them indefinitely. This episode challenges how we think about authority, bureaucracy, and responsibility — and asks what happens when survival depends on failure never fully disappearing.

If systems are rewarded for keeping problems alive… who is actually incentivised to fix them?

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