@wdlindsy @Deixis9
One doesn't need a primate brain to survive: Viruses, and prions are pretty persistent, too. But they don't have a strategy. Their way to reproduce/persist has just been shaped by natural selection, not designed/planned, The same for the GOP mindset: It perpetuates itself, but by very simply (though unfortunately efficient) means.
This was more or less the point I wanted to make.
I somehow doubt that. Not to contradict you, but strategy requires a mind planning to win the war. Stupid stuff just happens, because it was the most simple/easy thing to go into this specific direction at the time. Basically following the minimum energy valley. The only law of evolution is "what survives, survives" and some to the most simple, selfreplicating structures (like the GOP mindset) are like this. ...
Perhaps "strategy" is too ambitious a word. I am wondering if "stupidity" (but see below) is just infectious: Stupidity produces more stupidity and in the end stupidity elect stupidity. I am thinking less biologically, but rather like prion in mem-space, a self-propagating rotting away of the substrate for science, logic and discourse.
Stupidity: Yes, I mean, despite using this word, mostly "undereducated". ...
@aud
... It did not happen, because capital won once more again and preferred to hire less professional dilettants => More malleable, less likely to get uppity (about standards) and less like to jump ship when leaned upon.
True. The problem, though, are not the software engineers per se, but rampant capitalism that get's away with selling stuff under these conditions (and locking people in). In least in my generation there were a lot of software engineers that were unhappy with this and wished for more professional conduct.
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@CaptainJanegay @Extelec @Edent
It's a men in the middle attack. And quite obvious in my opinion.
Only proper reaction: I call you back, gimme a number and your name. Then phone via the front desk of your bank.
