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> “Never attribute to malice, that which can adequately be explained by incompetence.” In the cutthroat randian landscape of the US business, it is the opposit
by unity1001 4y ago
> “Never attribute to malice, that which can adequately be explained by incompetence.”
In the cutthroat randian landscape of the US business, it is the opposite:
“Never attribute to incompetence, that which can adequately be explained by malice.”
Incompetence, neglience, oversight etc are concepts frequently employed by the corporations to escape not only public opinion backlash, but also actually escape legal consequences in a courtroom.
- pmarreck 4y agoThat's fair. Claiming "we didn't know the consequences" (while those consequences weren't completely impossible to predict and coincidentally benefited the defendant) would be one possible strategy.
- unity1001 4y agoYou have no idea - that sentence is one of the go-to legal defenses in corporate lawsuits as anyone remotely following any corporate wrongdoing cases would know.
- ROTMetro 4y agoWalmart routinely has price mismatches between the price on the shelf and the price at checkout, to the point if it was a local store they would be shut down. But for a big company they can just say 'oops, our bad, we're just too big to do the things a store is required to do, like keep our display prices in sync with our actual prices' like the law requires. I routinely take pictures of the mismatch and submit to the FTC but nothing becomes of it. But if a local business did that they would be hit hard. Look at Amazon now with outright fraud happening, Amazon being a market for knockoffs, and the goto fence for thieves and stickup kids. Again, if that was a local business they would be so hit and management would be risking jail time. It seems like corporations are given this pass everywhere, yet average Americans get called as shills for just wanting basic corporate accountability.