There is no perfect analogy anywhere, of course, each analogy is flawed in one or another way.

But I don't think we should separate politics, social dynamics and tech. Because everything (unfortunately for us, techno geeks) is politics, as everything is done by people and politics is relationship between groups of people.

Your last sentence is perfectly applicable to politics too: it is way easier to be adult in totalitarian society, if your will to align yourself with "main party line", than in democratic society. You need to make much less choices yourself. But if you cannot align to this line, your life becomes miserable.

I think, that any monoculture is limited and bad. In tech too.

> tech wagie: I just want to make my life easier and not learn billions incompatible ideas made by billions of peoples

> tech bro: diversity is important, convenience is totalitarian, everything you do is politics

I laughed

sound like a baby Richard Stallman (I like open source but still)