…businesses don’t get to pick the timetable for when their preferred model takes a permanent dirt nap. It’s insane to me that these businesses’ fans see this so much more clearly than their actual stakeholders do. The fans want desperately to see these places stay alive, and many, like me, pay tons of actual cash every month or year to support that. But, then we also find ourselves having to beg them to face the non-negotiable reality of a scary, complicated, and hard-to-monetize new environment where nobody cares how attached you are to your spreadsheet.
kung fu grippe: Entitled to CareI quote the delphic candyland of Cameo as I say, “Word up”.
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    couple o’ zingers by Merlin Mann...piece by Marco Arment:
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    kung fu grippe: Entitled...delphic candyland...I say, “Word...
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    “But” they’ll say, “But we’re...media. We’re *culture.* We
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    nihilistic, fucking...Merlin’s points aren’t entirely bullshit. David’s aren’t either....
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    Dave Chatier responding...Merlin, who is responding to Marco:
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    kung fu grippe: Entitled
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    kung fu grippe: Entitled
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    kung fu grippe: Entitled to Care Bullshit. Most people don’t give...where they get their...
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