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> They do because they can, and because the damage still falls into the "acceptable losses" column.

Only in the vaguest sense. Don't attribute to corporate greed what can be adequately explained by an out-of-control bureaucracy made of competing personal interests and baroque by leadership by committee on promotions and raises.

Writing a fast computer program is much easier than designing a good bureaucracy.




“Don’t attribute to greed.” You’re not my dad, you can’t tell me what to do




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