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by tessierashpool 748 days ago
yeah, the assertion is entirely false. there doesn't need to be any such tradeoff.

there's probably a term for the cognitive fallacy where you assert that however it happens to be is how it had to be. it's like normalcy bias, but retroactive.

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> there doesn't need to be any such tradeoff.

Maybe you're right. I've certainly heard others make this claim. I just personally haven't seen a real-world example of this being true.