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by cen4 2y ago
Look at the Indian neighborhood (Sri Lanka, Pakistan, Bangladesh, Myanmar), all sharing similar peoples, culture, high populations/inequality/chaos are all in deep financial trouble and are politically unstable. Anyone who has vis
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by cen4 2y ago
Its not a coincidence that the Japanese Economy imploded around the same time. If your country has 40% of global corporate market cap value and then it drops to 8% after an asset bubble bursts, how many ambitious long term projects you can
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UK's Alan Turing Institute launches redundancy consultation process(theguardian.com)
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by cen4 2y ago
Veblen called sports Conspicuous Leisure. The goal is not fun but that everyone sees you win. So Stakes are Status. And Status gets people things in the same way Cash does.
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Very Important People(bu.edu)
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Letter: Taylor Swift concerts are 21st-century version of Veblen goods(ft.com)
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Lululemons Global Wellbeing Report 2024 on "Wellbeing Burnout" [pdf](corporate.lululemon.com)
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by cen4 2y ago
Pretty sure there is a similar graph for Britain during the wind down phase of their Empire.
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Donna Haraway: From Cyborgs to Companion Species (2004) [video](youtube.com)
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by cen4 2y ago
> It baffles me They are just marketing their products and services. They won't solve anything cause Media itself exists as Attention exploitation/manipulation service offered to the highest bidder. Global Human Attention is a
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by cen4 2y ago
Think more about Attention. Not about Information. Information is exploding and global available Attention doesn't grow. People who pay attention to one thing, can't use the same time to pay attention to something else. So govts a
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by cen4 2y ago
Its going to be interesting. They don't really have to follow the path of Google/Meta/Twitter etc which hardly had any customers/companies subscribing or paying for their services in the early years. That kind of sowed t
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China's silence on US TikTok ban speaks volumes(channelnewsasia.com)
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by cen4 2y ago
Check out the UN report on the Attention Economy. They quote a study that says less than 0.05% of content is consumed by humans. Obviously it has to come from the UN cause such reports wont come from within the entertainment industry which
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by cen4 2y ago
There is more content being produced than there are eyeballs and time to consume it all. How does such an industry survive? In a very round about manner that has nothing to do with what they say they do. General rule in life - Don't fo
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No work, no pay Samsung warns striking Indian workers as row escalates(channelnewsasia.com)
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by cen4 2y ago
What ever form of Media you take, the purpose is Attention Allocation. You have finite Attention. If you spend 10 minutes paying attention to this story, that time is gone for good and unavailable to be used on anything else. In that sense
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by cen4 2y ago
Everything is already fake. How Western Media and Advertising work is the root cause. Cutting and pasting from the first sentence on MIT's class on the Attention Economy. "In Understanding Media, Marshall McLuhan proposes that in
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by cen4 2y ago
Walk the neighborhood at different times of the day. It will give you an idea of the busiest businesses (ie the ones with cash to spare). Make a list and keep updating it. Then print a bunch of official looking visiting cards and walk in an
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by cen4 2y ago
Its extreme in comparison to what the rest of the Elite are tweeting about daily.
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by cen4 2y ago
Obamas is making movies for Netflix and living in Martha's Vineyard. I don't see him in the same category as MLK. At all. Veblen's Theory of the Leisure Class is applicable.
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by cen4 2y ago
Just have to measure things differently. GDP grows even if someone profits while producing sewage, cause someone else profits from clean up. If you call both Growth naturally DeGrowth doesn't make sense. Take the Attention Economy whic
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by cen4 2y ago
Cuz the US economy is 80% consumption and 20% production, compared to say the Chinese economy where its more like 50-50. So its complex to rebuild manufacturing after outsourcing it all away, and concocting stories for decades about how &qu
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Elementary, Watson Why one-third of Britons believe they could solve a murder(theguardian.com)
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by cen4 2y ago
Someone needs to come up with a Efficient society hypothesis. Its weird Zuckerberg has accumulated all this data about social dynamics and no theories have emerged yet.
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by cen4 2y ago
Look at the Brits. The current gen can't play the same games their grand parents did even if they are well programmed and super ambitious. They have to invent new games. And agree mindless ambition is a big issue.
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by cen4 2y ago
"Security" as provided by the Pentagon/MIL complex is an evolution of what the Brits used to do to maintain order across the Empire. After the Empire fell, the Americans basically cut and paste that policy, where the goal is
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by cen4 2y ago
No need to fear anything. Will be handled similar to Parasites and Pandemics. Scale is over rated, if the host gets drained and dies too quickly. Past couple decades have taught corporate wonderland how to combine mindlessly ambitious peopl
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How Vietnamese Australians came to dominate the nail salon industry(abc.net.au)
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by cen4 2y ago
But there is more content than there are people who can watch it. What do you think happens when the production curve grows way past the consumption curve?

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