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Follow the banter around a single term "Financialization" (setup a google news alert). It will lead you to everything else, including how the financial sectors thinking about it.

Thats cuz you think of it as a tech/content company, instead of Wall St financializing content. In the same way they did mortgages. The people who built the houses that were sold t…

How many didnt get famous? Thats what no one reports. If the UN report on the attention economy is saying 0.5% of content produced is consumed and dropping, then how are people get…

Spam and trolling even happens on a physical newspapers/radio/tv/books/magazines. Its just that you have to pay to do it. The rich/ceremonial/leisure classes have through out histo…

Well someone has to pay for the tech. Its not free. And that puts an automatic upper limit on what happens. People have no idea how much debt Police depts (lets not even talk about…

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Its called Attention Theft.

What we are missing is industry. People and politicians by themselves really cant take on the financial sector. They are the modern day rent collecting feudal lords. The Financial …

VFX makes 0 sense to me as a business especially in todays over saturated content world. I have friends in DNEG were each movie has 100-200 people working on 20-25 minutes worth of…

Very few "best" people/"superstars" have a great track record of doing anything useful outside comfy large corp support structure. Its like moving exotic plants out of a specialize…

Cuz the majority want to emulate the same behavior. Dont underestimate how mentally bankrupt everyone is.

You think Jack Ma didnt try that?

In the US sure, where its blasphemous to slit the throats of the leisure classes for their excesses. In China they made Jack Ma disappear. Through out history when it gets time for…

> the plight of the high-income, low-wealth American is getting worse Solution is pretty simple. Reduce status signalling (leisure class activities and purchases) and start saving.…

Michael Goldharber said it best - people have limited attention to give anything, but unlimited capacity to receive attention. Exploitation of that inequality keeps the Attention E…

Suzuki mostly sells its crap to the Indian market. Doesn't really sell much to the first world. And Raghuram Rajan agrees. He has been saying it wont work and govt incentives shoul…

I have the wallet/bat token stuff turned off. Its not even turned on when you install Brave. The main reason I moved to Brave is Firefox's bizarre updating model on Ubuntu which ca…