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Hate that phrase. Great way to excuse malice.
There is an 'adequately' missing. It somewhat counters the excuse of malice.
If you can't adequately attribute it to stupidity it has to be malice (or at least negligence).
Yeah, that's the more thorough version. My interpretation of the quote was to first search for stupidity, if only to confirm it is not in fact stupidity (but malice).
A lot of people don't like to think about just how much malice is involved in everyday life.
Not so much, it's more about how desperately stupid people (and companies) can be