Compromise Is a Good Thing for the Pacastico System

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Rey: Compromise is often seen as a dirty word, but so often is the case that it actually ends up you getting to a better place than if you just take a dogmatic point of view and say, my way of the highway. And i feel like what they've done here, and especially that that quote by the cto around, we're going to meet creators on their terms, not expect them to meet us on ors. There's probably, it is probably a bit of a mete in the middle. But it feels like this meat in the middle is landing us in a really good spot for the pacastico system. I'm excited to see what happens

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