Did you read the article? The argument was that tin doesn't occur in many places, so only the powerful even had access to bronze, which was a far superior material, which made it easy to subjugate the vast majority with no access to any material which could rival bronze. Whereas iron is abundant, so everyone has access to it, making it difficult to subjugate other people, because they could fight back.

No need to be pedantic, it's a system for operating a house, rather than computer hardware

It's not pedantic to point out obvious issues. It's not an operating system.

Nothing pedantic about that observation.

From the README.md:

> Manages household tasks, shopping lists, notes, prayer times, and birthdays from a single shared display.

So what does it *operate* exactly?

> No need to be pedantic

When people misuse words, we get Cloudflare-style marketing BS. Can we be better than big corps?

Completely agree. I wonder how much this varies across cultures on the country level (like how people say the Dutch are blunt).

I think that indirectness emerges when a critical mass of people decide that they're better off in an indirect culture. i.e., thinking "nobody is straightforward with me, but that's worth it because it means I don't have to be straightforward with anyone else". And of course that's infuriating for anyone who would rather take the opposite deal!