Small addendum: I'm middle-aged myself but got some hope from my gen-z nephews/nieces: they seem to understand what's happening. An example is vinyl. They coll

Small addendum: I'm middle-aged myself but got some hope from my gen-z nephews/nieces: they seem to understand what's happening. An example is vinyl. They collect it, and it's not just a hipster thing. This rationally makes no sense if you consider that Spotify will have any song at your fingertips wherever you go. Yet it totally makes sense. Digital music is dead, it has no soul, it's not real. If I tell you that I listened to a song on Spotify (out of 50 million of them) this is supremely meaningless. Yet if you visit my home (which is a vast improvement over a chat message) and I show you a real object with cover art and we both share the experience of listening to it, it's much more real. It's physical, and a shared experience. Likewise, if I'd share my Spotify playlist with somebody, that doesn't do much. Nobody's going to analyze a digital list of music forwarded by somebody else, especially without any background or curation. Yet if you look at a person's physical collection and they excitedly tell you about it, it's much more inviting to browse and explore. It's like a little piece of you, whilst digital belongs to nobody. Many of them also seem to play board games, whilst they could have played a million digital games. Anyway small sample size, but we need more of this.