[metabagel]

What’s the opposite of “participation culture”? Not participating?

I feel like signing a letter of protest is doing something “real”. It’s communicating to leadership of the company that you have concerns about what has transpired. It’s not nothing.

[Mary-Jane]

Parent post is probably referring to the relatively new phenomena of issuing "participation prizes" instead of prizes for winning, this insulating the participants who "lost" from the stigma associated with being a "loser".

[pydry]

Ayn Rand's following, probably.

[Mary-Jane]

Is there an equivalent to Godwin's Law for Ayn Rand?