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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Can I observe that people intend to be critical of gold rushes and them being extractive but have instead decided to hate shovels?
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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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The overwhelming majority of our industry is simply enjoying an enormous, sustained expansion of ability to create value and charge for it.
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AppAmaGooFaceSoft, for their many faults as organizations, have delivered nothing less than a new industrial age.
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And is this industrial age confined to the titans? NO. This time you can download a steam engine for free and lease your factory for $2/mo.
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And in this tremendous growth in the productive capacity of humanity, some firms sell to other firms rather than to end consumers.
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Is there a word for selling to producers rather than consumers? B2B, sure, but in general "has existed since before capitalism was a thing."
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Is there purpose and value and sustainable businesses and social utility in creating tools which makes firms better? Yes, yes, yes there is.
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And while I do not want to personalize this disagreement, I will point out "selling shovels" is INEVITABLY deployed by an employee.
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It is literally "I choose to sell my labor to a firm. This is right and virtuous. You choose to sell something else to a firm. Unclean!"
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