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JHB

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2. Interesting. I've used the "banality of evil" argument myself...

Reply to Lars77 (Original post)

Wed Jul 25, 2012, 06:45 AM

Jul 2012

...with regard to corporate decision-making, and people making decisions they would not if "the numbers" did not provide a veneer of dispassionate objectivity.

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Chris Hedges: The careerists [View all] Lars77 Jul 2012 OP

Quiet, calm people can do great harm, and know they are doing wrong, but do it anyway, because tclambert Jul 2012 #1

Interesting. I've used the "banality of evil" argument myself... JHB Jul 2012 #2

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the new management class 90-percent Jul 2012 #4

Just read it 90-percent Jul 2012 #5

Terrifying, Troubling, True. hedda_foil Jul 2012 #6