To understand the pressure he describes, it helps to notice how many systems optimize for repetition: repostable opinions, scalable workflows, and standardized professional personas. In such environments, what spreads fastest is frequently what is easiest to reproduce, which can push people toward safe mimicry rather than original conviction.
As a result, individuals risk becoming commodities—useful, efficient, and replaceable. Hoque’s phrasing “optimized for speed and replication” echoes the logic of industrialization applied to attention and ideas, where throughput becomes the metric and nuance becomes a liability. [...]
