It was mostly a joke but I don’t disagree with your assessment.

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He’s a programmer, they’re not really known for their awareness outside of pretty specific problem solving.

Was just talking to my partner about this last night. We both got to experience the internet before social media and corpos fucked everything up.

“Rugged individualism” is propaganda sold to school children from the time they’re in grade school.

That’s the beauty of it, they’re not wrong either way.

Give it a decade and people might become a lot leaner and a lot stronger though, I hope. Admittedly I don’t have a lot of faith in my compatriots but it could happen.