I think this is exactly right, though it sounds pithy. The same process produces food that is unsubtle, fatty, and highly sugared. It sells really well! But in

I think this is exactly right, though it sounds pithy. The same process produces food that is unsubtle, fatty, and highly sugared. It sells really well! But in the long run, it's terrible for us, and also boring - all fast food tastes more or less the same, because the more adventurous it is, the worse it sells. The term frequently used in discourse is "lowest common denominator". It's a question of capitalism optimizing for local optima versus global optima. What were seeing with the internet is, what happens when we apply this process not just to food, but culture itself?