Counterpoint: these masters of planning couldn't even supply people with a decent pair of shoes. One's ability to credit Russian apparatchiks with mystical powers appears to be in inverse proportion to contact with the society they built for themselves.https://twitter.com/tristanharris/status/1020377091597000704 …
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Counterpoint: it's vastly easier to destroy than to build. You don't need to be very talented, to, say, sabotage a billion-dollar company, but building a billion-dollar company from scratch requires immense amounts of hard work, talent, and luck.
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Counter-counterpoint: http://block.one just had a $4 billion ICO.
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Let me upgrade my example: a conspiracy of 100 well-organized rogue employees could realistically sabotage and tank a $50B company over a 5-year period, but the same group would be hard-pressed to build a similarly significant company in 5 years.
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I think it's significant that neither one of us give an example of any such conspiracy of 100 well-organized rogue employees, but we can point to hundreds of such groups who have built a significant business. Building things is hard, but conspiring in numbers is also hard.
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(ahem) Toys R Us, Sears, Kodak...the list goes on If the employees happen to be senior management and are incentivized to loot rather than build, it's just another day in America.
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Looting is ubiquitous (and exactly what happened in the former USSR), organized and planned conspiracy to sabotage, as asserted in this conspiracy theory, is a different animal.
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It's rare in the corporate sector because it's much easier and more profitable in the financial sector.
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