hot* take: not everything needs to be inclusive and not every product/brand/platform needs to make everyone happy



*reasonable, common take that most people won’t say out loud these days

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Reminds me of:

https://noahpinion.substack.com/p/the-shouting-class

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this is one of the problems - the exact type of people that'd participate in this type of discourse often tend to be the folks that make these types of "grievance-as-a-lifestyle" comments. weighing them down means not having a discourse at all - hence you see a lot of websites not having comment sections these days

Great read. I wonder if there's any way to weight down those "grievance-as-a-lifestyle" comments. Kinda makes sense to me that if you're only able to stand *against* things and don't have anything you stand *for*, comments from those people don't really have much value and should be weighted down appropriately

There are just a subset of the people in the world that just simply want to watch the world burn - if anyone has ever worked in the service industry, you'd know that there are just a small percentage of people that no matter what you'd do they'd be unhappy - whether it's attributable to that time or just in nature

100%. "But a subset of people will never stop complaining. When a problem becomes less severe, they switch to a different problem. And they will always find some problem that they feel requires their vocal complaint."

i genuinely don't get how anyone could feel good or uplifted for a prolonged time with this mentality