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Because I'm a nice person, and want to give other nice people the benefit of the doubt. And most businesses are run by people after all, not hard to imagine at
by embedding-shape 7mo ago
Because I'm a nice person, and want to give other nice people the benefit of the doubt. And most businesses are run by people after all, not hard to imagine at least some of them would be "nice people" too.
And frankly, the alternative would be too mentally taxing. So in the camp of "Good until proven otherwise" is where I remain for now.
- robbiewxyz 7mo agoKeep in mind that an organization made of fairly nice people may do terribly not-nice things. "Just doing my job" is a hell of a drug.
- staplers 7mo agowant to give other nice people the benefit of the doubt Maybe the most naive, sheltered thing I've read on this site. If we were talking about an individual OSS maintainer, sure, that's possible. But large corporations have been doing the opposite for as long as they've existed and there's evidence presented to that fact nearly everyday.
- embedding-shape 7mo ago> Maybe the most naive, sheltered thing I've read on this site You must be new then, welcome :) I'm not saying I never believe any individuals in a company intentionally do bad stuff, just that I require evidence of it being intention before I assume it to be intentional. Personally I don't think that's naive, and it is based on ~30-40 years of real world life experience, but I guess I'm ultimately happy that not everyone agrees on everything :)
- LocalH 7mo agoHumans are great at hiding evidence of malice, and leading people to believe they're just incompetent.
- TheTaytay 7mo agoJust came to say (since the person you’re responding to has a different view of the world) that I agree with you that this is both a more accurate, and easier way to live. Assuming malice as the default sounds like a recipe for being very, very unhappy.
- masfuerte 7mo agoThis attitude of ignoring what is true in favour of what makes you happy is exactly how corporations made up of mostly good people can do bad things.
- staplers 7mo agoThank you, it's really crazy to be see "it's sad that you want truth when ignorance makes me happy" being upvoted on this platform. I suppose it's par for the course on a VC forum..
- arcfour 7mo agoAnd yet many people assume malice by default and are unhappy as a result in this day and age. It's unfortunate.