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I think it's the opposite of Hanlon's razor: Never attribute to stupidity/incompetence that which is adequately explained by malice/evil-intent.


The original Hanlon's law is an excellent argument for why Reverse Hanlon's law is more often true.

For another example, see every customer service phone tree in existence. Or more broadly, any customer service, although Google gets extra side-eye.




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