You made connections between things and the workplace that the parent did not imply to my eye.

It was an array and you started making a dict, assuming whatever connections you wanted.

See Americans are trained to not be so gaudy but quietly believe in these things. I see it all the time when I actually push people to share their political views. Democrats and liberal minded folks totally ok with bombing the Middle East and making life cheaper and easier for America.

So I guess it’s something of a ymmv, depending on whether you actively dig or just idly observe.

I think what the internet has shown is we all have wildly varying ideas of what being free means at an individual scale but at a macro social like scale pretty much just follow the corporate drum beat.