Maybe a nuclear power station, as we currently design them, requires very rigid procedures. But that probably also reduces internal information flow, punishes people for noticing problems, and so on. So perhaps that's really an argument against nuclear power as we know it.
McDonald's isn't designed the way it is because people are stupid. It's designed to maximize returns on capital investment. Workers are made to be interchangeable, and the product is uniform and predictable. For 300,000 years, humans self-organized to take down caribou or whatever to make our own dinner. Is it really likely that we need a system like McDonald's to get a burger made?
