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This comparison suffers from what I call “the scale fallacy”. You can’t compare disrupting technologies like this as if the scale of their impact plays no role

This comparison suffers from what I call “the scale fallacy”. You can’t compare disrupting technologies like this as if the scale of their impact plays no role at all. How many people’s livelihood depended on monks writing books by hand?

falcor84 2y ago
Arguably all the tens of millions of those whose lives depended on the hegemony of the Catholic church and the status quo it maintained. The disruption was relatively slow, but massive.
teamonkey 2y ago
Pentiment (2022)