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Was it the other way around that you read “free market fundamentalism” or something similar and co-opted it into your daily usage, and now you’re seeing it everywhere?

There’s even a name for this bias - Baader Meinhoff effect

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It's wasn't that. If it had been that I wouldn't be suggesting that I came up with it.

You almost certainly didn’t come up with it. I’ve heard it being used in the 90s at least and its usage was rampant in the 2007-2009 financial crisis.

Here’s a Google trend: https://trends.google.com/trends/explore?date=all&geo=US&q=f...

It shows the usage of the term peaked in 2004 (Google only has data past 2004).

People can invent things independently and multiple times. Please, don't tell people what they did or not because there's a bias.

I think the point is that you can't attribute the coining of the phrase to the gp for that exact reason though

I'm with you that independent invention happens pretty frequently (which makes sense, because figuring things out 'which makes sense' tautologically makes sense), but that also means you gotta humble yourself when making claims of 'first!'

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