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Re:Reddit has become a guide to personal finance by noizejoy on Wednesday March 04, 2020 @04:07PM (#22488133)
> rampant tribalism and insistence one groupthink is incredibly strong

Could that be, because so much of programming is a group activity (understanding, maintaining, and evolving other people’s code), and thus actually benefits (in an evolutionary sense) from simplistic group think more than from innovation and perfection?

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Re:Reddit has become a guide to personal finance by ethbro on Wednesday March 04, 2020 @10:27PM (#22490699)
I'd chalk this one up to folks with enough time to endlessly post on Reddit not spending those hours building and maintaining software.

Professionals have time for the internet as a hobby. Hobbyists have time for the internet as a job.

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