Comment by usehand
17 hours 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.
17 hours 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.
I 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.
Its 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.
Yep, I meant rational in the purely self-interested sense