Part of the problem is that people really don't understand each other. It seems one side thinks people in large corporations are some Bond villains holed up in an underground dungeon scheming how to screw the world while the other thinks that anyone who supports aspects of this movement is a hipster/unemployed/hippie/welfare recipient/communist/etc.
I know that's an exaggeration and a generalization just like I'm criticizing, but the way people seem to think in terms of caricatures is kind of stifling actual discussion of the real issues. Not on here necessarily, as I think there's some good input from all sides and most people seem to have a good handle on things. But when people paint an entire group with a single brush and lower them to some stereotype it's a lot easier to ignore what they're saying. Sometimes people do that to avoid having to think too hard about things that might contradict their world view.
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