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I wish people would stop using economy as just a smart-sounding metaphor
- stcredzero 18y agoHe tries to debunk the economy metaphor by pointing out that: 1) Lots of people use the metaphor poorly 2) If you take it literally, it doesn't work Neither of those are particularly good. Maybe becoming hackneyed reduces the value of a metaphor in terms of communications, but really says nothing about it as an idea. And lots of metaphors don't work if you take them literally because, you know, they're metaphors! I dislike how this happened to the word "paradigm." Awareness of one's mental models is quite valuable. And there are likely emergent effects akin to markets in web communities, despite the difficulty in quantifying them.