The Decay of Infrastructures and its Consequences

The speaker reflects on the concept of infrastructures decaying like the Jenga game, where removing pieces weakens the system until it collapses. This analogy is applied to the administrative state in the U.S., which is gradually falling apart due to various factors like court decisions and policy changes, leading to a weakened system. The speaker questions the assumptions of system functionality and the consequences when systems start to degrade.