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There's a cognitive dissonance on this site where everyone claims to hate this attempt at regulatory capture, yet they would do it too if it was their tech company and call it a "moat", and many are actively working towards that.

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You might be a victim of the Goomba Fallacy[0] where you're seeing two opposing opinions from two distinct groups of people, but since those are expressed on the same site, it seems as if 'the site' is contradicting itself.

[0] https://knowyourmeme.com/editorials/guides/what-is-the-goomb...

Doesn't Goomba fallacy require at least one opinion should be minority?

obviously not. Its about the fact that the two people expressing those two opinions are literally different people... They don't have "cognitive dissonance", they are two people! They disagree! thats normal!

I wouldn't do it, your point is now disproven

Two different groups: the hackers, and the money people.

I heard someone say recently that one reason tech sucks is because the sociopathic narcissists domesticated the hackers.

There's probably some truth to that.

Just look at this site now lol

This site was created by venture capitalists. The dichotomy was always there.

The sociopaths tend to rise to the top in any industry, unfortunately.

I haven't done this with any of our technology. Of course, I'm also not as profitable as some companies and have much less control over trying to lock my customers in.

This does mean my YC application is far less likely to be accepted.

Just because someone wrote a post on a site with orange banner it doesn't mean they agree with other people that wrote posts on the site with the orange banner.

Let's learn the concept of "different people have different opinions", shall we?

There's no cognitive dissonance. If it's not legislated against you're just being naive and kneecapping yourself by not abusing the rules. End of story.

Is this cognitive dissonance, or is this just people being normal?

You pursue business strategies as a profit maximizing business person concerned with outcomes for your company and investors. You comment on the regulatory/political matters as a pro-social citizen concerned with societal benefits.

Cognitive dissonance tends to occur when attempting to avoid hypocrisy... and doing mental gymnastics to make it so there are no clashes between your different perspectives.

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