what if you love your pro-social company or your gadget that allows you to do a more effective activism that helps people? what if loving your gadget makes you not treat them as an ephemeral thing, thus making you stay with them longer and contributing to the enviroment with less e-waste?
in 99.99999999% of cases people loving a company or a gadget is bad and it's not particularly nuanced or complicated. Why must people (or just engineers?) fixate on some weird imaginary possibility edge case instead of just accepting the statement as "true".
Is it pedantry, cope or something else i'm missing?
When you “love” a company, it’s not the same as “loving” your wife.
And “loving” your wife is different, still, than “loving” your brother or best friend.
I don’t see the connection, sorry.
Because you’re right, fandom toward products and enterprise is objectively bad. It’s taking the same hooks actively exploited by religion and cults, but now towards iPhones and B-Corps. They are being exploited, and choose not to recognize it because their identity is tied to their fandom.
Yeah, life is a lot harder being the wet blanket in the conference room, asking pointed and specific questions about why we do things this way, could we do them better, etc, but it’s also liberating to see just how much of the world is blind momentum built on fear of literally any other alternative.
fandom from the HN crowd is (usually) excessively bad but there's much more than the Silicon Valley Rainbow, AI and millionaire CEOs essays out there... and this group has better tech education than amazed ordinary people buying yearly new devices to call an API on a server or open Instagram/X with faster processors and higher pixel values on an ant's larvae sized camera sensor with fixed F-stop lens