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> The flaw is in the people.

Reminds me of a story (no idea about historical accuracy): When the chief propagandist of the UDSSR was invited to a scientific conference he talked about all the positive effects of socialism, how it will solve all problems and so on. When his talk was finished the scientists unsurprisingly questioned him about his talk, because of all the prominent problems with socialism. His answer was simple:

"The system is perfect. The people are the problem."

If your system is 'perfect', but the people are the problem, maybe your system is shit. No one would use an engine that could go near the speed of light but killed all passengers in the process.



I read the grandparent as being a parody of how the stereotypical engineer thinks. Poe's law in action?




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