Saturday, December 26, 2020
Separating out the fallacy
"Creative destruction" and "innovative disruption" are murderous myths spread by the tech monsters to suppress NORMAL invention and evolution.
One big weapon in the suppression is the sunk cost fallacy. Tech monsters tell us that we should never waste effort by reusing an existing skill or technique or device. Never adapt, never improve, never debug, never listen to customers. We should always abandon all existing experience and learning. We should always spin spin spin spin with the microsecond updates at Github.
This command is an intentional conflation and distortion of two truths.
Here's the correct logic:
(1) It's wasteful to stick with a project or a way of living after you're sure it can't succeed. THIS IS TRUE WHETHER THE PROJECT IS NEW OR OLD.
(2) Reusing existing knowledge and skills is the BEST way to succeed in any arena of life. Successful writers and composers and artists and inventors and businesses and scientists and HUMANS and ALL PLANTS AND ANIMALS reuse existing skills and systems and learning and morality. THAT'S THE WHOLE POINT OF LIFE.
The tech monsters falsely use half of fact 1 to FLIP fact 2 upside down. They link failure to reuse, which is RARELY true. Most of the time failure happens when you AVOID reusing existing skills.
EXPERIENCE SUCCEEDS. THEORY KILLS.
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