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>For all my life (and I am not spring chicken) I noticed one thing: criticism, cynicism and pessimism sell. They are attractive.

Not as much as the multi-trillion dollar industry for "how to make it big" advice, business and startup hussle culture, magic bullets and/or grind p0rn, and so on, all built on optimism, and aiming at an ever renewable supply of fresh naives.




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