I'm sure it could be a factor (nothing's preventing someone from doing that, after all) but my original point was essentially as characterized in this post belo

I'm sure it could be a factor (nothing's preventing someone from doing that, after all) but my original point was essentially as characterized in this post below https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7793607 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7793607 The tone of the article, I think, was suggestive of a causal relation, which surely doesn't (necessarily or plausibly) hold.