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gspryesterday at 7:05 PM4 repliesview on HN

I don't believe that. I don't necessarily love capitalism (though I can't say I see very many realistic better alternatives either), but if HN is full of people who could do corporate IT better (read: sanely), then the conclusion is just that corporate IT is run by morons. Maybe that's because the corporate owners like morons, but nothing about capitalism inherently makes it so.


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dylan604yesterday at 7:30 PM

> corporate IT is run by morons

playing devil's advocate for a second, but corpIT is also working with morons as employees. most draconian rules used by corpIT have a basis in at least one real world example. whether that example happened directly by one of the morons they manage or passed along from corpIT lore, people have done some dumb ass things on corp networks.

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layer8yesterday at 7:10 PM

Apparently capitalism doesn’t pay enough for corporate IT admin jobs.

KPGv2yesterday at 9:35 PM

It's because corporate IT has to service non-tech people, and non-tech people get pwned by tech savvy nogoodniks. So the only sane behavior of corporate IT is to lock everything down and then whitelist things rarely.