• grue@lemmy.world
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    8 months ago

    Scott Adams (the Dilbert guy) later turned out to be a delusional POS in other ways, but his formalization of the concept of a “confusopoly,” where companies collude to extract extra profits by making their products so complicated to evaluate that people have difficulty choosing between them because of decision fatigue, was spot-on.

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      8 months ago

      how much later do you mean because that dude was pushing his variant of The Secret since about 1997

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        I mean, when he came out as a MAGAt and not just a woo-woo affirmations kook. Emphasis on the “POS” part, not just the “delusional” part.