• Dyno [he/him]
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    4 years ago

    Hanlon's razor stipulates that we should "never attribute to malice that which is adequately explained by stupidity".

    Problem is, this 'stupidity' happens with such regularity in the ordinary functioning of capitalist economics, that it should be expected by all participants that these events will occur unless active efforts are undertaken to avoid them.

    Thus: every perceivably malicious act that occurs in capitalism is inherently a malicious act, at least those perpetrated by the bourgeoisie against the proletariat.
    They will try to walk back the more overtly villainous acts and feign ignorance, but it doesn't matter - they already know how the system functions; they understand the power structure and its effects on the people ensnared within. There is no excuse - they should have been proactive in preventing malice/stupidity from occurring because they should have known to expect it.

    Call it P.P. Balls's razor: "never attribute to stupidity that which is adequately explained by the profit motive", then when people say "P. P. Balls?" you say "P. P. Balls."