▲ | phendrenad2 2 days ago | |
Nah I consider that a fallacy. I'll call it the fallacy of the oranges. Let's say I control all of the orange trees in town. People resell my oranges. I begin using really strong insecticide that resellers try their best to wash off. I keep upping the strength and they keep trying to remove it. At the same time, there is one banana tree in town, and conveniently for my analogy, no pesticides are needed for bananas. As oranges continue to become worse, people will keep eating them, and saying that "there's no way people can switch to bananas. If they could, they would have already. And besides, there's only one tree..." Yes but these things can change. And eventually, people will switch to bananas en masse. People will truck in bananas. And we'll all act like we predicted the great banana switch the whole time. Like MySpace to Facebook, or Digg to Reddit. Or GSuite to Outlook. Or Skype to Zoom. |