We keep seeing this principle play out over and over again, where the most popular iteration of any given commodity proves to be one of the ones most despised by people who actually care about said commodity And yet people still play coy about ithttps://twitter.com/LususNaturae0/status/1328169299035512833 …
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You really don't have to call a Big Mac "the greatest sandwich in the world" or "an objectively good sandwich" solely on the basis of its popularity or cultural ubiquity Yes, all standards of success are fundamentally subjective but there's a general understanding here
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Is the Toyota Corolla the greatest car of all time? It's certainly the best-selling. Maybe it's "the greatest" in some sense, but certainly not in ways that relate to the direct relationship between the consumer and the product
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Being the most popular iteration of something is basically a red flag for not being a very good or at least not very sublime example of something Ubiquitous things are usually designed to be so, at the expense of more desirable traits cf., the "Project management triangle"
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Most of the things popular enough for a large majority of the seven billion people on this earth to have tried them are Fast and Cheap Which means they came at the exclusion of the Good I'm perpetually baffled that people have such difficulty admitting this
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All I'm saying is that people who really love cars and have a lot of money don't drive stock Toyota Corollas
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I really, really want to have an Alphonso mango.
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YES!! HP comparison discourse!

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