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He means that people, on the whole, are more incompetent than malicious. The first time you find out a billion dollar corporation relies on handful of dodgy Ex
by bena 5y ago
He means that people, on the whole, are more incompetent than malicious.
The first time you find out a billion dollar corporation relies on handful of dodgy Excel files, you recoil and wonder how such a company got so successful doing such idiotic things.
The second time you discover this, you marvel that you found the two companies that are successful in spite of such bad decision making.
By like the fourth or fifth time, you realize that this is the norm and no one really has it any more together than anyone else.
- username90 5y agoStrangely the incompetence of a company has to do with how much it is in their interest to fix something. A bug makes the company money? This can't be fixed, are you sue it is important? A bug loses the company money? It is fixed within the hour! Example of the first is the horrible billing for cloud products, designed to make it easy to get huge bills and apparently that is impossible to fix. Incompetence wouldn't correlate this strongly with company interests if incompetence actually was such a huge problem for fixing things. Sure companies often fail at doing some stuff, but those things then are usually very hard to do, they never fail at relatively simple things unless failing at it helps them.