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“It is difficult to get a man to understand something, when his salary depends upon his not understanding it!” - Upton Sinclair

This quote gets brought out a lot, for good reason, but I think people don’t quite grasp its meaning. It’s often understood as meaning that people will play dumb in order to resist you. But it goes deeper than that. A person will literally have a difficult time understanding something if that understanding will put their livelihood on the line.

I would wager that essentially everybody involved in this process had a twisted understanding of the problem that left them convinced that what they were doing was harmless.




When one personally doesn't know the victims it is easy to rationalize.




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