"Never attribute to malice that which is adequately explained by stupidity" https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hanlon%27s_razor https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hanlon%

"Never attribute to malice that which is adequately explained by stupidity" https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hanlon%27s_razor https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hanlon%27s_razor I'm not arguing that these people are malicious, or that they aren't stupid. I'm arguing that we should start punishing them as if they were malicious. The default assumption should be: fraud. The fallback should be: incompetence to the point of negligence. But really we start out by treating them like frauds.