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0 pointsstaplers1mo ago0 comments

  want to give other nice people the benefit of the doubt

Maybe the most naive, sheltered thing I've read on this site. If we were talking about an individual OSS maintainer, sure, that's possible. But large corporations have been doing the opposite for as long as they've existed and there's evidence presented to that fact nearly everyday.

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embedding-shape1mo ago

> Maybe the most naive, sheltered thing I've read on this site

You must be new then, welcome :)

I'm not saying I never believe any individuals in a company intentionally do bad stuff, just that I require evidence of it being intention before I assume it to be intentional. Personally I don't think that's naive, and it is based on ~30-40 years of real world life experience, but I guess I'm ultimately happy that not everyone agrees on everything :)

LocalH1mo ago

Humans are great at hiding evidence of malice, and leading people to believe they're just incompetent.

TheTaytay1mo ago

Just came to say (since the person you’re responding to has a different view of the world) that I agree with you that this is both a more accurate, and easier way to live. Assuming malice as the default sounds like a recipe for being very, very unhappy.

masfuerte1mo ago

This attitude of ignoring what is true in favour of what makes you happy is exactly how corporations made up of mostly good people can do bad things.

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arcfour1mo ago

And yet many people assume malice by default and are unhappy as a result in this day and age. It's unfortunate.

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