Or... you could try and look deeper than idiocy: there just might be something else. If only disenfranchising which can push people pretty far. You would think

Or... you could try and look deeper than idiocy: there just might be something else. If only disenfranchising which can push people pretty far. You would think most of the world would be clear on that by now? The discussions within Cypherpunks for one place could get pretty "down to earth". It's still later than Neuromancer but people there seemed pretty thoughtful and explicit. This kind of issue comes up all the time: "why do the poor do X", "why do these employees do Y"... You can usually figure out incentives that go beyond "idiocy". Recently on HN "why do people do multiple ACH or ACH-equivalent transfers?"