> Engineers tend to overestimate the impact of "intentions" on "systems"
Everyone does. The comfort of the loonier conspiracy theories is that someone, somewhere, however evil, has a plan and is in control. And you can blame 'them' and their competence for your misfortune.
Denying that conspiracies exist by people who do have some influence and leverage over systems is the other wrong extreme.
There are plenty of good and evil intentions and plenty of conspiracies. Some of them kind of work out, rarely exactly as intended, and there's also lots of chaos.
Everyone does. The comfort of the loonier conspiracy theories is that someone, somewhere, however evil, has a plan and is in control. And you can blame 'them' and their competence for your misfortune.
Denying that conspiracies exist by people who do have some influence and leverage over systems is the other wrong extreme.
There are plenty of good and evil intentions and plenty of conspiracies. Some of them kind of work out, rarely exactly as intended, and there's also lots of chaos.