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All this is so normalized these days that many of the items on this list are referred to with reverence as best practice.

Plus calling these things "sabotage" isn't right even as a metaphor, and IMO confuses the issue. These people aren't on a third-party payroll, they are just self-serving.

No one is creeping into your office in the middle of the night. You invited them over, let them in, watched them piss in the fish tank, and then gave them a promotion and a raise. Now you're surprised everyone is lining up to fuck up the place? As usual the value judgements are just a distraction in matters of economics, look at the incentives.



"Never attribute to malice that which can be adequately explained by stupidity."


Except when there's a financial incentive. Never attribute to stupidity what can be adequately explained by greed.

Not sure if there's a name attached to this counter-principle, but it's just as important as the original in my opinion.




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