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Your cognitive dissonance is because in higher strata of first world society, indirection is an extraordinarily popular get-out-of-jail-free card. Only a single
by yourapostasy 8y ago
Your cognitive dissonance is because in higher strata of first world society, indirection is an extraordinarily popular get-out-of-jail-free card. Only a single level of indirection sufficiently enables all sorts of financial manipulation. See Wells Fargo as just a simple example.
Simple C-style pointer indirection is increasingly disallowed in lower strata as this example illustrates. The higher strata are going to handles-level and greater layers of indirection in the meantime.
- mattthebaker 8y agoReminds me of an article about some powerful men on wall street that do not use email. Doing most of your written communication through an assistant would give you a great deal of plausible deniability. Also reminds me of someone else constantly in the news these days.
- skybrian 8y agoSure, much of the economy runs on abstraction. It's not like Walmart or Amazon (let alone their suppliers) know how their customers will use their products. On the other hand, there are exceptions like "know your customer" rules for banks, big companies policing their supply chain (including subcontractors) and art dealers asking provenance to be documented. Turning products into services (subscriptions and app stores) tends to break the abstraction. This article was about a very leaky abstraction.