Work-loving knowledge workers are only a narrow slice of society
AaronBergman18 · x · 2026-07-24
The poster replies that these people matter as much as anyone else, but they are a relatively narrow subset of the population.
- Their personal preferences and work experience do not necessarily generalize.
- The point is not to dismiss them, but to remind them to be humble about universal claims.
- It continues the thread’s broader argument against overgeneralizing from work-loving knowledge workers to society at large.
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