Yes, in-house counsel tell us that all the time

> for decades — pro-copyleft activists (including myself!) were under the mistaken impression that this was just an “education issue” and that once everyone learned the rules, they'd do the right thing … because people are inherently good, or? 🤔
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> I've become more of a cynic than I once was because ...

Yes, people are _statistically_ good; otherwise civilization would not exist.

HOWEVER, billionaires, CEOs and other leaders are a minuscule minority; so there is a ferocious selection process!

Also, humans are statistically good but... extremely bad with statistics :-) For instance: we keep believing that "random"(not) things we see on the internet are representative and mean something. When we pause and think, then we know they are not and do not. But we don't think and we keep believing that they are, again and again. We can never see the forest for the trees.

The human species simply had not enough time to evolve past the tribal stage when none of these issues existed thanks to a ridiculously small degree of separation.

tl;dr: be cynical with CEOs, spammers, AIs,... But not with actually random people. Which we unfortunately stopped meeting now that BigTech captured all our time :-)