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Hanlon's razor is just a bad rule. Applying it would, for instance, let the entire Trump administration off the hook for the way they sabotaged everything they were in charge of. Were incompetent? Mostly, yes. But they were also malicious.
Yeah, Hanlon's Razor is hardly a rule. But it can help to deal with regular people in your day to day life, rather than sinking into paranoia that everyone is out to get you.
However if we are talking about business and politicians, it's pretty much their job to get one over people. All the profits and power that they can get is what they squeeze out of you.
And even when it comes to peers, that doesn't account for prejudice. Someone who otherwise might not knowingly do anything bad to their neighbors might act differently to groups they hate.