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Cultural observations are not instances of typical mind fallacy, you’re reading OP too literally.
by TimorousBestie 1y ago
Cultural observations are not instances of typical mind fallacy, you’re reading OP too literally.
- hiAndrewQuinn 1y agoIt's not a cultural observation. No society founded upon good commerce could possibly get by without the mechanism OP is describing being encouraged in at least some public or semi-public spaces. You need to actually intract with people to trade with them.
- bravesoul2 1y agoYou are right, but then they invented long distance electronic communications, like the telephone. Even pre internet you'd run a business, word of mouth via... phone calls, trade shows..., plus maybe advertising. It needs no public space for random people to meet.
- anovikov 1y agoPerhaps it was indeed my personal thing. Maybe it's just that i'm introverted? But i'd hate to be bugged when in a cafe and if it ever happened (it never did), i'd probably stop visiting that particular place seeing it as a magnet for obnoxious types. And yes, i don't do any networking at all, literally never met any person i did business with, in 25 years of career. Or maybe, that is my European perspective? Because i probably never seen people doing that. There is an old observation that "networking" is American only cultural phenomenon and it doesn't exist in Europe - maybe it's one of the ways it manifests itself?