So the people running the systems that underlie our lives are incompetent, and don't know how to keep them running properly. I'm supposed to be reassured by that?

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[–] 12 points 11 hours ago

greed-based incompetence

I don’t buy it was a simple mistake.

Incompetence scales well, though. It wasn't simple, and it wasn't a mistake so much as an un-hoped-for consequence of a series of stupid decisions based, probably, on greed. As in: it could have been better, for only a few percentage cost more, but that was rejected as a course of action.

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