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by quadrangle 2952 days ago
"protectionism is stupid" can be used as a generality, but if you make it a broad, confident assertion you're removing human judgment and trying to apply simplistic rules to the world — which is exactly the type of thinking that makes bureaucracies stupid.

And yes, with Hanlon's Razor, you can still criticize things that you accept as likely coming from good intentions.