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Although Hanlon's Razor advises considering incompetence[1] before ascribing malice[2], there's always this advice from 1944:

(p.29) 11.b.10: "To lower morale and with it, production, be pleasant to inefficient workers; give them undeserved promotions. Discriminate against efficient workers; complain unjustly about their work."

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23389921

[2] https://www.cia.gov/news-information/featured-story-archive/...

    We play croquet
    And go rollerblading
    Here's to homies on lock
    For insider trading

I'm not sure I understand. SEC employees are being secretly trained to destroy it from within?

More that if Avakian and Peikin were explicitly following the OSS guidelines for sabotage, they'd be promoting inefficient enforcement and discouraging efficient enforcement.

Now, I don't believe those two are doing anything of the sort, but a look at the current US ministers certainly reminds me of the soviet chief rabbi joke. I once made fun of Boris Johnson because he videoconferenced with a bookshelf in the background that appeared to have been bought by colour, but he's still doing better than the US Secretary of Education, who didn't even have any books on her background bookshelf...

(Of course, maybe I'm too cynical, and enforcement of insider trading has dropped precipitously because they've found something more important to enforce?)

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