myth

So it's not even that you're perpetuating an ancient fantasy, it's that you're perpetuating a marketing myth.

The belief that post-WW2 America was some kind of glorious classless meritocracy is a myth.

This is a myth, perpetrated by the campaign against the estate tax.

The fact that he accepts the ads were real makes his claim that Irish were delusionally propagating a myth of oppression even harder to understand.

Fictional myth building around Elon Musk is a recurring activity.

The supposed slowness of flash relative to browser api's was a myth, although flash content was bloated, in much the same way that modern web pages are bloated.

In 1995, everybody believed in this myth.

This kind of behavior gives technical people a bad name, and perpetuates the myth that we are social hermits who cannot sell or run companies.

An interesting but related point about the power of propaganda: The family farms story is a myth created (or maybe first given authority) by Bill Beach at the Heritage Foundation around 1996.

Don't take this the wrong way, but at 23 you're not old enough to have lived through Microsoft's history, and it is likely that what you have heard is the agreed upon myth.

> This kind of behavior gives technical people a bad name, and perpetuates the myth that we are social hermits who cannot sell or run companies.

For example, to provide a scientifically plausible explanation of the biomechanics of Prometheus' regenerating liver[1] would detract from the thrust of the myth, and might also have been difficult to do given the state of medical knowledge in Ancient Greece.

If you have a product people want to buy, investors will come to you." Ahh yes, the old "meritocracy" myth.

The myth of "hard work = high wages" is one of the most pernicious and persistent of American lies, I'm afraid.

No, this is feeding into that "meritocracy" myth again.

"It's a myth that proximity matters." Except reality has not followed your logic.