If most people only have one experience, it’s not a good metaphor. I’ve seen the metaphor, “A company that treats its employees like family is bad.” There are families in the world that treat their elementary school children as independent individuals, and there are families that treat their adult children like their parents’ property, and they usually only experience one of them. https://twitter.com/nishio/status/1272696858310111233?s=21
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