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Okay, so the whole world is failing and success doesn't exist.

Maybe now you need a better criteria than your previous failure / success_100%_infiniteCost to observe and understand the the world

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This logic enables and encourages corruption in all spheres of life. "Things are messed up as they are, so why try so hard to do the right thing?" "Let's be realistic."

The logic allows that to continue because "good" and "better" isn't good enough, only "perfect" is allowed, so instead "nothing" is done

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