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this post was submitted on 06 Mar 2024
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For corporations it is, "Never attribute to malice what can be explained by greed."
For a lot of corporations, malice and greed are pretty much the same thing. When a business decision is justified by "Who cares? Do it anyway." the distinction is a matter of words, not actions.
It's not malice though, it's cold, unfeeling greed. Malice implies they want to cause harm; all they want is to extract maximum profit. Sometimes it's by being malicious, sometimes it's by being altruistic, for instance pretending to care about an oppressed minority in order to improve their image. The only decision is "will the cost of this action be less than the profit it makes?"