Jobs that need to succeed need to be tenable
I've brought this up before. For a job to be done, someone has to do the job. It's obvious, but it's easy to forget imo.
Take jobs like teaching, or policing, or even things like elective office. If you make the jobs untenable, you're in trouble. You won't get good people to do them, and the good people who take the jobs won't be able to do them well. The good people will be hamstrung, the mediocre people will be "minimum Monday seven days a week," and the sub-mediocre and ill-intentioned people will game the system.
Good jobs have good customers and good work. A lot of folks seem to have the simplistic (my opinion) idea that you get a job done by paying well for it and holding the jobholder "accountable" for doing a good job. And those two things are factors—in a non-dysfunctional system. But if you don't make a job tenable and supportive of the typical human who needs to do the job, you'll end up paying through the nose for sub-par work, and accountability will go out the window.
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