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Originally Posted by Elfwreck
Shatzkin writes some good stuff, and it's definitely ideas worth considering. And Konrath goes off the deep end sometimes, and is amazingly blasé about Amazon's growing monopsony. But there are reasons that Konrath gets quoted by a lot more people--he's making statements that people find useful and directly applicable to their lives. Shatzkin mostly talks theory that will take years or decades play out; there's no immediate way to check his accuracy.
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But Konrath's accuracy has not been checked either. That people find it useful does not mean that it is really useful. Also possible effects people see can have other reasons so without proper blinded experiments you can not say so much.