Path: csiph.com!eternal-september.org!feeder.eternal-september.org!nntp.eternal-september.org!.POSTED!not-for-mail From: John Ames Newsgroups: comp.os.linux.misc,alt.folklore.computers Subject: Re: naughty Python Date: Tue, 30 Dec 2025 08:57:05 -0800 Organization: A noiseless patient Spider Lines: 31 Message-ID: <20251230085705.00000d1a@gmail.com> References: <10i8usb$2oo2c$3@dont-email.me> <10icd30$2ck7$1@gal.iecc.com> <10idu04$7inn$1@dont-email.me> <10if4lo$jr1h$1@dont-email.me> <6decndo7ib2Df8z0nZ2dnZfqn_adnZ2d@giganews.com> <10iu02q$1029n$12@dont-email.me> <10iu3g7$11u10$3@dont-email.me> <10iutjt$1c0aq$2@dont-email.me> <20251229154007.00000f61@gmail.com> <10iv9vv$1fea0$2@dont-email.me> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Injection-Date: Tue, 30 Dec 2025 16:57:10 +0000 (UTC) Injection-Info: dont-email.me; posting-host="f7fd933dfe86f27aab1c25cd8a26f277"; logging-data="1958823"; mail-complaints-to="abuse@eternal-september.org"; posting-account="U2FsdGVkX18mZFnoxn9u/gOlL9Kf1YnP6pVKXFz8Rv4=" Cancel-Lock: sha1:pTZv/nIYA5fyWVghyOQW4zPv5Hw= X-Newsreader: Claws Mail 4.3.0 (GTK 3.24.42; x86_64-w64-mingw32) Xref: csiph.com comp.os.linux.misc:80115 alt.folklore.computers:232901 On Tue, 30 Dec 2025 01:30:39 -0000 (UTC) Lawrence D=E2=80=99Oliveiro wrote: > > Essentially, we've allowed the creation of a business culture ... =20 >=20 > Who is this =E2=80=9Cwe=E2=80=9D? Governments that fail to punish the executives who benefit off fraud & deceptive practices the way they punish the accountants who implement them. Businesses that hire cretins with a track record of mismanagement as if they're qualified to do the exact job they already failed at. The media that fawns over anybody with a sharp suit and a C-suite position, and quotes any dumb thing they say as gospel. Colleges that hand them umpteen thousand dollars of their students' tuition money to show up and blather vapid, empty-headed nonsense at them for an hour-plus. > Companies that don=E2=80=99t manage to do this, go out of business sooner= or > later. This idea that there is an ongoing cadre of incompetent > managers that somehow manage to obtain sinecures at company after > company ... just doesn=E2=80=99t make any business sense. It *doesn't* make sense - but it is, unfortunately, demonstrably the case. The real world doesn't operate according to an ideal model; human error and cultural factors are fully capable of driving businesses run by humans in a specific culture to do things that are Actually A Bad Idea. And since good managers may hire incompetents or grifters by mistake, but incompetent or grifting managers are basically guaranteed to hire more of the same, there's a specific kind of perverse selection at work here.