A basic issue with SV is its full of genuine team players who hate operating alone and are happiest in 2-pizza teams. This means when they must choose between two terrible teams, they’ll pick one with some sort of lesser-of-two-evils logic, and do so with worked-up passion, not half-heartedly. It’s a hell-yeah-or-nah mentality even when all options are between hell-nah and meh. They won’t just kick back and do something solo for a while.

If SV had decided to go Full Team Woke (not an improbable counterfactual around a Bernie fork) we’d be in a different sort of hellscape now.

I need to put a hell-yeah spin on my mediocrity philosophy.