Comment by tanker_war

2 days ago

This conflation between "useful" and "profitable" is maybe the most annoying motte and bailey that industry people like to employ.

I really don't get why it's so commonly stated. It's so obviously dumb once you think about it for more than 5 seconds. It's like people arguing that improving the track or improving the shoes doesn't win races because at the end of the day it's the runner that crosses the finish line. Sure, but to discredit everything but the runner is so myopic. Let them run barefoot and run on glass shards, then watch them lose