Why can't I pass List as a parameter to a method that accepts List<object>?

Question

The following code gives me this error:

Cannot convert from \'System.Collections.Generic.List\' to \'System.Collections.Generic.List\'.

Answer 1

This has been covered ad-nauseum in many other answers. The short answer is this:

Consider I have these variables:

List customers = new List(); //ok, seems fair
List