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Re: Very Important People

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Earlier quoted context omitted.

This is a phenomenon that, like many social phenomena, seems to scale superlinearly, and you've described a gradient of economic advantage along which this will tend to accelerate. These properties suggest to me that an attitude like "it's fine as long as it's not taken too far" is at best pretty naive

Schelling points are a known outcome of many types of phenomena, especially competitive ones.

This statement is, while true, quite vacuous. What's your point?

Re: Very Important People

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> Before she started playing, she took a second to explain how love is in the air and in the trees and in the water. "And we're all, like, made out of water, you know!" she said. "And water is, like, you know, life!" It was one of the stupider things I'd heard recently, but it sounded familiar. It’s one thing to be a blogger huffing his own farts, it’s another thing to be rude about it. The girl might not have been a…

You missed the point of this text. It is not a scientific article, nor text pretending to be a revelation in any way. It is just a process or the episode of life, the author shared with us. And the writing (style) is excellent too.
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