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slightlyoff@toot.cafe ("Alex Russell") wrote:
@heydon It absolutely *is* the case that path dependence and unpriced externalities have caused important sections of the economy to fundamentally destroy value relative to what they "create"!
Accounting tricks can make bad things look good for a long time. It's *entirely possible* that the net net of the last decade's over enthusiasm for JavaScript has been more costly than it has been valuable.
Which is to say, you do not have to accept that popularity == value.