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Re:The social obligation to be bad at things by heavenlyblue on Thursday June 11, 2020 @12:31PM (#23490541)
It’s easy to see the world in this black-and-white separation; however there’s a lot of creators who are there to rip you off for some money and they deserve every critique you can get.

Moralising stories like that mask the actual complexity of telling the people who try to be better and are shit (and thus deserve your understanding) from people are fake trying to be better while taking advantage of you (“oh my god I didn’t realise the engine I was selling you is completely covered in rust!”).

The complexity here is not selecting one of the two; but rather consistently selecting one of the two for any given moment in life. And that’s hard.

Re:The social obligation to be bad at things by ricardobeat on Thursday June 11, 2020 @12:45PM (#23490693)
I think your critique of marketing-oriented folks is valid, but after saying how bad it is to polarize the discussion, you immediately made your own black-and-white view of creators.