> That's people problems though

And the people make the culture. So, in effect, the culture suffered. I think you’re taking the original comment too literally with your “piracy is theft” comparison. Obviously you can’t literally rob culture¹, because culture is a concept. But you can lose something from it, and that loss can have a cause you can point to, so in a way elements of it can be “robbed”.

That’s what I get from the original comment when I steelman it, anyway.

¹ Sounds like the name of a Rob Zombie associate.