Thoughts on the impact of the information explosion on society: When the agricultural revolution happened, people traded ok but scarce diets for shittier but more readily available ones.
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The frontiers are all virtual, which leaves peoples' bodies abandoned in physical space.
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I sometimes wonder if the egregious displays of class violence exhibited by today's rich are motivated by that. "How else are they supposed to know who is the pleb and who is the patrician?"
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Can you give an example?
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Sure. I found Clinton's tweeting her staffer's medical gofundme after being ambivalent-to-negative on socialized healthcare to be quite an egregious example. Then there is anything done by Amazon recently. Bezos doesn't need cash. Not having to care is its own status symbol.
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I've been wondering how a website can signal high status nowdays. Maybe animations that manage to load quickly. Requires a good designer and coding skills
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