Unfortunately a lot of contrarian people think "it wasn't my idea" is a hole in a design even if they would never say it.
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At some level, it doesn't actually matter if these labels are correct or generalize a culture or anything else. It does matter if people genuinely feel the things described and if other people are genuinely unaware of those feelings.
We are each inherently limited in our perspective by being an individual. It's helpful to be exposed to other ways of thinking, and it's helpful to have ways of conceptualizing differences in thinking for future reference.
"Ask/guess" doesn't have to be *true*, it just has to be useful as a heuristic.
- Thing becomes popular
- Megacorp takes notice and offers eye-popping amount of money to acquire thing (or doesn't have to because the founders are in over their heads anyway with how popular thing has become)
- Megacorp shuts down thing because it is a distraction from their other things which are printing unimaginable amounts of money
- Rinse and repeat
Consolidation of the entire internet into the hands of a few megacorps isn't just a problem because of their outsized influence.
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