We shouldn't be too hard on Sunfish, he is simply telling us what he was trained to believe.
Anyone that spends a significant amount of personal time and resources to pursue an objective will put a lot of importance in that learning. It will become the way they view the world. The danger is though that sometimes they forget it is just ONE way of viewing the world.
Anybody here ever worked for a company run by an engineer? They can often be good places to work, all the tech stuff is emphasized in importance due to the technical orientation of the guy in charge.. an engineer. But they can be
pr!cks of places to work for when you start arguing lifestyle issues such, work/life balance, right to representation by a union, etc. You can't get time off to sort out your marriage, etc.
What is more important is -- beware the MBA. A world run by MBAs (or ATPLs) would not be worth living in. The MBA is a servant of the currently ascendant extreme capitalist system, which in its ideal state, sets itself apart from the natural world that unfortunately, we carbon-based lifeforms occupy.
(as an aside, it always makes me smile when I hear an economist talking about the 'real' world. The last thing a market is, is 'real.' A market is an idea, a logical construct. It is not 'real'!)
Example. BSE. Bovine Spongiform Encephalopathy, aka Creutzfeldt-Jakob Disease, aka "mad cow disease."
The meat industry, like the aviation industry, has always been under pressure to be 'efficient.' When you send a sheep or a cow to the slaughterhouse, you kill a whole animal, but not all of that protein is considered fit for human consumption.
So what to do with all the bits of the cow and sheep that cant be sold for human consumption? As part of the cannibalistic merry-go-round that is an economically essential part of the meat industry, all the bits of animals from slaughterhouses unsuitable for human consumption are boiled up to produce fat and protein. The protein makes animal feed.
Which is fed to other sheep and cattle, which one day will be fed to us.
Now, you and I might pause and think... sheep and cattle are herbivores. They browse paddocks of grasses, etc. That is what they have eaten for centuries. Maybe feeding recycled animal protein to herbivores might have risks, perhaps even unwanted side effects.
But the meat producers wanted to sell it. So they asked scientists "is there anything that says we should not sell it as stock feed?"
Something that you as an MBA or an ATPL might not understand is the extremely high level of intellectual integrity demanded of the scientist. A scientist will not release a statement unless he/she can prove it.
They said, in effect, there is nothing to say it is dangerous. They also said that there was nothing to suggest that it was safe.
The inevitable happened when industry messed with nature on a big scale. Funny things started happening at the milking shed. Some cows started standing apart from the herd. Others got frightened by the milking machines. They lost large amounts of weight. They died.
When/if they were slaughtered, their brains were riddled with holes like sponges. Not unlike the brains of some PNG folk, dying of a strange disease called "Kuru" that killed up to 80 percent of some women in villages that practiced cannibalism (to increase fertility!).
So where are we now?
In the world created by the MBAs, there is officially no problem. Despite the fact that over 150,000 cattle, or half the national herd, in the UK have the disease. Despite the fact that regular eaters of beef products are 13 more times likely to contract Creutzfeldt-Jakob Disease (CJD). Despite the fact that soon, more people in Europe will die per annum of CJD than AIDS.
Any layperson exercising commonsense would make the connection that forced cannibalism in herbivores used as a human food source might have problems. They would certainly demand that the practice cease immediately once the huge risk to human consumers became known.
But not the MBAs. The common market would collapse.
It is ok for humans to die of an incurable dementia due to their basic food source. But it is inconceivable to the MBA to allow a market to collapse!
http://www.mad-cow.org/
Beware any system being run unfettered by an MBA.