But you're making the wrong assumption that effort is fungible. That if something new didn't exist, that the effort would have instead happened on the old thing

But you're making the wrong assumption that effort is fungible. That if something new didn't exist, that the effort would have instead happened on the old thing. I don't understand why people think this way since those same people certainly don't operate that way. It's just backseat driving how other people spend their free time. Just comes off as a circlejerk.