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On the conventional wisdom, [[bad apple]]s are the sole remaining fly in the ointment separating us from the sunlit uplands of [[financial services utopia]] that our patient labours have earned. Once the last bad apple has been rooted out all will be well in perpetuity. | On the conventional wisdom, [[bad apple]]s are the sole remaining fly in the ointment separating us from the sunlit uplands of [[financial services utopia]] that our patient labours have earned. Once the last bad apple has been rooted out all will be well in perpetuity. | ||
It’s not clear what | It’s not clear what we’ll all then ''do'', but this is but a quibble. | ||
The JC ponders human nature and wonders whether we should be quite so credulous. For ''bad apples gonna be bad''. | The JC ponders human nature and wonders whether we should be quite so credulous. For ''bad apples gonna be bad''. | ||
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This is another way of saying a bad apple that doesn’t ''look'' like a bad apple, and that no one ''believes'' is a bad apple, isn’t really a bad apple. | This is another way of saying a bad apple that doesn’t ''look'' like a bad apple, and that no one ''believes'' is a bad apple, isn’t really a bad apple. | ||
It | It won’t really due to say we must be better at spotting bad apples — thereby spreading by association the stigma of bad appledom on those who failed to spot. ''Why'' did they not notice perfidy going on around them? Are they on commonly stupid, or or have their bullshit detectors been somehow disarmed? | ||
Might they have been disarmed by ''process''? | Might they have been disarmed by ''process''? | ||