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The likely explanation is not that they are stupid, but that they are actually being rational and they can do this often and get away with it.
by usehand 4mo ago
The likely explanation is not that they are stupid, but that they are actually being rational and they can do this often and get away with it.
- solomonb 4mo agoI think you're right. I can't think of any reason an entire organization would act this way unless it had been repeatedly successful for them in the past.
- pigeons 4mo agoIts a different kind of rational though. There is a world leader who gets away with all kinds of obvious theft and bribery and grift and fraud and self-serving out in the open, but to reasonable people, he doesn't seem rational at all, despite getting away with everything.
- usehand 4mo agoYep, I meant rational in the purely self-interested sense