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  1. #Tradition and the #LindyEffect are descriptive, not prescriptive, observations.

    Things stick around for lots of reasons, good and bad — including, but not limited to: coercion, fear, inertia, ossification, taboo, chance, network effects, market failures, sunk costs…

    Lots of wrong ideas, unhealthy habits and abhorrent behaviours are “old”.

    Old ≠ good.

    (#NaturalisticFallacy, you’re next)