Exactly. Just like "Correlation does not imply causation" Hanlon's razor is one of those things people love to trot out to appear sophisticated when it has quit

Exactly. Just like "Correlation does not imply causation" Hanlon's razor is one of those things people love to trot out to appear sophisticated when it has quite the opposite effect. Would it also be "We eventually figured out something was wrong and went through a very annoying process of learning about royalties and how they interplay with prices, discounts, and other factors and then set things right" if Amazon's mistake was cutting their own fair share in half rather than their business partner's?