How Completely Messed Up Practices Become Normal

Re:How Completely Messed Up Practices Become Normal by apalmer on Wednesday December 30, 2015 @06:27PM (#10815095)

OK, I think there are some unspsoken givens that I need to spell out to make my point clearer.

Typically people resolve the issues that directly cause them pain pretty quickly if it is in their control. Further "control" requires understanding how the levers a party influences impact the obstacles that cause the pain.

WTF level issues typically occur when the above conditions aren't met, usually that means the 'pain' doesn't impact the party that has the control to end the pain. next most common is the party that has the control doesn't understand how its levers affect its obstacles.

just fixing what they can is not going to resolve WTF level issues...

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Re:How Completely Messed Up Practices Become Normal by vinceguidry on Wednesday December 30, 2015 @09:33PM (#10815790)

One should always keep in mind that a WTF-level issue is very possibly a critical oversight on the issue-holder's side. Lots of things in the world appear very fucked up, but are in actuality slight improvements over even more fucked up states of affairs. One should endeavor to find out the history of the situation before jumping to judgment.

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