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> It wouldn't take much to seed the initial culture with this idea. I don't want to bend over backwards to defend a company that certainly could have done this
by wyldfire 8y ago
> It wouldn't take much to seed the initial culture with this idea.
I don't want to bend over backwards to defend a company that certainly could have done this. But, sadly, this strikes me as plain old "humanity at work." I think many of us have subconscious/instincts to evaluate people on status cues and kids don't yet know enough social conventions not to make that kind of thing explicit. Sadly, some adults may model this bad behavior too.
- jerf 8y agoAs you can sort of infer from my post, the only thing preventing me from assuming that Epic did it on purpose is my assessment that the difficulty of manufacturing that from scratch, on purpose, is actually significantly higher than the difficulty of backing into it by accident. A lot of major "marketing discoveries" were clearly backed into by accident, as a result of marketers just throwing everything at the wall over time. But even if it was an accident this time, it won't be next time.