Toward the end of the 18th century, the British government decided to send all Englishmen who had committed crimes to Australia.
Some private shipowners were contracted to transport convicts on a large scale from Britain to Australia. The British government paid the shipowners for the number of convicts on board. In order to profiteer, the shipowners loaded as many people as possible, making the conditions on board very bad.
Three years later, the British government found that the death rate of prisoners on the ship to Australia was 12 percent, with 158 of the 424 prisoners on the worst ship dying, a death rate of 37 percent. The British government spent a large amount of money, but did not achieve the goal of mass immigration. The British government tried many things. A government official was assigned to supervise each ship, another doctor was assigned to take care of the prisoners' health care, and hard and fast rules were set for the prisoners' standard of living on board.
But not only did the death rate not drop, but some of the ship's supervisory officials and doctors died for no apparent reason. It turned out that some shipowners bribed officials for profiteering, and if the officials refused to go along they were thrown into the ocean to feed the fish.
The government took a new approach, gathering shipowners together for political education, talking about the "Three Represents" and teaching them to value life, to understand that the development of Australia is for the long-term development of Britain, and not to value money more than life. But the situation has not improved and the death rate has remained high.
One British MP believes those private boat owners have exploited a flaw in the system. The flaw in the system is that the government pays boat owners based on the number of people on board. He proposes to start by changing the system: the government would calculate pay on the basis of the number of people disembarking in Australia, so that no matter how many people you loaded on a boat in Britain, you would be paid by headcount when you disembarked in Australia.
Since then, ships have taken it upon themselves to have doctors on board with them, to prepare medicines on board, to improve life, and to make sure that everyone who comes on board reaches Australia as healthy as possible: one person means one income. The mortality rate has dropped to less than 1 percent. Some ships carrying hundreds of people sailed for months without a single death.
Story 2:
During World War II, the U.S. Air Force had a parachute pass rate of 99.9 percent, which meant that, probabilistically, one out of every thousand soldiers who jumped out of a parachute would die because the parachute failed. The military demanded that the manufacturer must get the pass rate to 100% in order to do so. The head of the manufacturer said that they were doing their best and that 99.9% was the limit, unless there was a miracle. The military (some say it was General Patton) changed the inspection system, randomly picking a few parachutes from each delivery and letting the head of the manufacturer personally jump out of the parachute to test them. From then on, a miracle occurred and the parachutes passed 100 percent of the time.
Story 3:
An American professor. Every time you come to China is to live in the ugly room, through the alleys, non-stop interviews, records, a book published by Oxford, the latest academic work is so completed, the spirit of its work can not help you do not admire.
But he also had a hobby that was out of the ordinary for him: on his first day in China, he always asked his friends to accompany him to the software market to look for pirated American software in China, which was cheap and good value for money. As Chinese people, we may be able to understand and even support the American professor's hobby, those just out of the U.S. software, if bought locally in North America, is too expensive, expensive to the point that even the professor can not afford to buy.
But privately we also wonder: can he be allowed to do this in the US institutional environment? It seems that Americans, like people of any other nationality, are neither angels nor devils, and once they are free from the constraints of the native system, all the weaknesses of human nature emerge and are even indulged.
Story 4:
A friend in Hong Kong said, a group of Westerners exit from Lo Wu, as some people in the mainland, see the queue on the queue, there is no civilized habits; across the Lo Wu Bridge, to the Hong Kong end of the immigration, a hundred paces away, the human nature is suddenly a big change, the rules and regulations of the queue.
This is the power of the system! No matter how arrogant Americans or elegant Frenchmen are, once they are out of the system's constraints, they are as close to the vermilion as they are to the ink.
Story 5:
A Japanese high-class hotel tested the cleanliness of the guest room flush toilet is the standard: by the cleaner himself from the toilet scoop a cup of water to drink a sip. One can imagine how clean such a toilet would be. A good system keeps bad thoughts in check, while a bad system keeps good intentions at bay. Having systems in place that link outcomes to personal responsibility and benefits can solve many seemingly unsolvable social problems.
A good system depends on steel laws to maintain it, but in our case, with a little power, the chickens and dogs can break the law at will according to their own likes and dislikes and make "rules" according to their own wishes, making the whole chicken country a "lawless" place with no system, no rules, no laws, and no one's integrity. "The entire chicken country has become a place where there is no system, no rules, no law, and no one is honest. Here bad people rampage, good people around the wall, good people become bad, bad people worse, human nature to the evil, only in the advent of major disasters, can occasionally inspire the good indulged in the soul of the people. So when there is a major disaster in the country, the official media will be happy to go out and make full use of the disaster to convey "positive energy". Even the recent haze across the country, but also let the official media to get out of the "five big windfalls": haze so that the Chinese people are more united, more equal, more sober, more humor, long knowledge.