ppl rarely understand that scaled internet systems maximize liquidity while externalizing emotional cost. that’s the sleight of hand.
lots of peeps make the argument that “everything is a numbers game” but this framing assumes retries are free. they’re not. every interaction has a psychic toll & emotions are definitively *not* zero marginal cost.
abundance thinking works for compute, ads, & inventory. it fails spectacularly for intimacy, trust, & self worth. optionality goes up. meaning goes down. roughly everything on the internet eventually turns into a signal vs. noise issue.