3 ms·
Percentage of what? If you can show that the rate of people attaining celebrity is outpacing the rate of population growth, I will accept the claim.
by wavefunction 10y ago
Percentage of what? If you can show that the rate of people attaining celebrity is outpacing the rate of population growth, I will accept the claim.
- jacalata 10y agoI interpreted the claim as "penetration of famous people" - same percentage of people are famous but the percentage of the population that has heard of each one goes up.
- lambertsimnel 10y agoI wonder whether celebrities are less likely to be confined to a small niche now than in the past. I assume they are less constrained by geography, but audiences are more fragmented by the Internet, etc. Assuming a constant proportion of the population is famous and that more and more people know of a typical famous person over time, eventually every famous person would be known to everybody.