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by SleepilyLimping 973 days ago
>Seems like a common theme: people build a community around something, it becomes something really cool, and then a bunch of businesspeople insert themselves and liquidate the trust that’s been built

So do the people who let the business people in just get to dodge the blame? "Oh well, we can't expect anyone to have principles in the face of so much money, so we shouldn't hold anyone to a standard?"

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Don't hate the players, hate the game.

This applies to all the actors here as long as they abstain from getting involved in politics in a way that perpetuates the rules of the game.