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So everybody who doesn't is either thoughtless or on the take. You are, at a minimum, not assuming good faith.

Thoughtless people are operating in good faith, but I consider them to be naive. I see no reason to assume good faith in all, that would be as foolish as assuming bad faith in all.

You can see the problems with the current system and still disagree with all the values and mechanisms that are proposed as replacements, thinking they are inadequate. That leaves you, by default, supporting the current system, not because you think it's the perfect system, but because you don't think any of the alternatives are better.

I presume by 'you' you mean you, not me. This isn't relevant to the first paragraph because I was critiquing 'people who insist that everything is working fine', not people who see and acknowledge problems.




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