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Next you'll be telling people that rather than rent storage units to store all their extra stuff, and then build an app to track all of that stuff, to just not buy so much stuff in the first place. If you generalize this type of dangerous advice, then what happens to the American economy? The same applies to websites: if you don't add all that great good stuff into every page, then what happens to the programmer economy?[1]

[1] Although satire is dead, killed by people actually espousing extreme views on the internet, I still indulge but am forced to explicitly tell the reader: this is ridiculous satire. Of course we should solve the root of the problem and not invent/adopt technology that enables our bad habits.



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