[pjc50]

> no serious academic, legal scholar, or politician is going to engage with these ideas publicly

Eh. Either they weren't going to do so anyway, because doing so goes against the money, or they can come up with a more public-friendly term.

[rolandog]

Yes, agree. I think this fake outrage at the rudeness of the word is performative pearl clutching from staunch capitalism apologists.

Everyone knows that synonyms exist, and them not having found the more "polite term" in Wikipedia — platform decay — says more about them and their reluctance to engage with the subject and the proposed solutions.