I hate no meme so much as "selling shovels", which is a synecdoche for "selling shovels in a gold rush" and universally used as a slur.
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A shovel is a quite useful thing. You can plant a field or dig a school's foundation with it. Digging these by hand is objectively worse.
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A tiny little blip of our industry is a gold rush, where people have entered mania as a result of transitory, extractive opportunities.
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@patio11 My great^2 grandfather came to California for the gold rush and made bupkis. If he’d sold shovels I’d be living in a mansion now.Thanks. Twitter will use this to make your timeline better. UndoUndo
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