Commies remind me of a joke where a committee of MBA types discusses in great depth the paintjob and other superficial details of a nuclear plant while glossing over the engineering details. Making proclamations about how their ideal world ought to be at a high level is all they can do. Contending with complexities of the real world is beyond them.
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That's the act of "bike-shedding", also known as Parkinson's law or the law of triviality - because business types cannot handle the complexity of the actual reactor's hardware, they have to spend large amounts of time discussing the specifications of the plant's bike shed.
Law of triviality -- that's exactly it. I had come across the concept earlier but forgotten the name.