> "Even on small scales, deceit and conspiracy are rare." "Even" is not the right word there. It's precisely as organizations grow in size that deceit and cons

> "Even on small scales, deceit and conspiracy are rare." "Even" is not the right word there. It's precisely as organizations grow in size that deceit and conspiracy start to become commonplace. For instance speaking of Apple and Google, they (along with Adobe and Intel) secretly conspired in an unlawful agreement to keep wages low by agreeing to never compete for each others' employees. In the end they ended up getting a firm slap on the wrist to the tune of $415 million. [1] Great ethics there. In practice Hanlon's Razor is not very useful. Many large corporations, certainly including Google, do engage in malicious behavior. But they invariably ensure there is some form of plausible deniability to minimize the worst case outcomes. And that plausible deniability is often connected to some form of plausible ineptitude or behavior they were supposedly not complicit in, let alone directing. Because of this tendency Hanlon's Razor would end up being, "Never believe a large corporation would do anything malicious." [1] - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/High-Tech_Employee_Antitrust_Litigation https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/High-Tech_Employee_Antitrust_L...