Deteriorated copies spread
https://gyazo.com/f55874087a7a47414746acccda9e8c45
2021-11-08
If there is something of value X and an inferior copy of it is possible, then over time a degraded copy of it is made and the boundaries of concept X are expanded The degraded copies reach the "Shoeshine boy" who does not actively acquire information first. This is Pessimistic Misconceptions, underestimating the value of X, so they don't want to read the original source of X and can't recognize the mistake relevance
A good book X written by a smart person is copied all over the place by people of a later time period, degrading it.
People who can't compete on the merits of their content put their name out there as a foil, saying, "It's written in that famous X."
People who read only a degraded copy without reading the original will misunderstand and say, "What a big deal.
Self-help used to mean good.
More scammers are taking money by offering degraded copies of self-help.
As a result, more and more people see "self-help" itself in a bad light.
Mass production due to low production costs of bad "degraded copies"
Good content" is expensive to produce.
It is not reasonable to put out good content in a place where good content and degraded copies are equated, so good content will not appear in such a place.
A not-so-nice phrase, but simpler: "More idiots don't make the idiots right." There are simply too many idiots.
kmizu I don't know what you mean when you say that "there are a lot of people who promote object orientation who are kind of stinkers," but I've seen Fowler, Eric Gamma, Joshua Brock, and a lot of others. I've seen the discourse of Fowler, Eric Gamma, Joshua Block, and many others, and I think those who are considered "big names in the object-oriented field" in the English-speaking world are generally "sane. ...... kmizu By the way, object orientation is a methodology (or some kind of framework), and at least no sane researcher should have ever called themselves a "science". So, the perception of those who criticize it as pseudo-science is itself off. Also, there seems to be an assumption among such people that if it's not science, it's worthless.
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