"for one consisting of a few mass produced, single sourced things." Clay Shirky made the point that something like the Internet expands the total number of off

"for one consisting of a few mass produced, single sourced things." Clay Shirky made the point that something like the Internet expands the total number of offerings available to one person while decreasing the total number of offerings available overall. He hints at this in his essay on powerlaws: https://web.archive.org/web/20060208093032/http://www.shirky.com/writings/powerlaw_weblog.html https://web.archive.org/web/20060208093032/http://www.shirky... He went into greater detail in a later essay, but that later essay now seems to be offline.