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Are you an AI who can’t understand metaphors?


That's rude and unhelpful.

Read the linked material. The metaphor of bootstraps was an impossible and Quixotic feat like perpetual motion that became coopted as a celebrated mythology of "self-made". There is no such animal, friend.


It was in the 50's, not now. The world looked a bit fucking different than now.




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