Generalization of the following two stories

  • Middle-aged managers who say that “new hires these days are not good” are unintentionally stating that their company is disliked and avoided by the “hot young people” these days.
  • People who say “Twitter is full of idiots” are expressing their inability to find and follow people who are not idiots.

relevance - Symmetry of Relationships


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