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There’s the problem: we want change without giving up the things we’re accustomed to. We’re locked in.

By "the things we're accustomed to" you mean food, jobs, healthcare, education?

You had food as a barbarian. Job wasn't needed because you weren't enslaved by your feudal lord, healthcare and education being the only benefits of civilization... largely benefits for the rich and not the peasantry I might add

The basis of so much of Microsoft's complacency (and why the MB Neo was such a nuke to the entry-level laptop market).

It's pretty terrible how much this kind of dynamic rules over tech. I'm not a 'capitalist', but god damn if competition isn't the most important thing to prevent total enshittification.

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