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Because not working well is the natural, i.e. higher-entropy, condition. Actually working is evidence of time and effort meaningfully expended, of money spent a
by ncmncm 5y ago
Because not working well is the natural, i.e. higher-entropy, condition. Actually working is evidence of time and effort meaningfully expended, of money spent and not just pocketed or squandered.
It is not unlike the expectation that the toilet seat be left down, not up.
- phendrenad2 5y agoIt seems to me that any burden of proof would lie with the manufacturer, who must convince the consumer. When one consumer says "it works" and another consumer says "it doesn't work", then we're outside the usual burden-of-proof social dictates and we have to adopt new rules. Such as, I propose, both people need to bring evidence or expect to convince no one.