"we’re more afraid of machines taking away our social status than our jobs." by @vgr
https://www.ribbonfarm.com/2013/07/10/you-are-not-an-artisan/ …
Good question. I think with fame capital it's actually been going the other way from wealth/financial capital. After a peak in the broadcast era, the biggest are actually getting smaller. The fame 1% is losing ground to the fame 9%
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Agree. Though the structure of fame is definitely changing. Pre-Internet, a local professor could bask in confidence of best the best teacher in the town. Now, (s)he has to compete with Khan Academy.
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Earlier, you had super-stars which you could mentally discount as exceptions. Now, you have people like you getting a lot more fame than you. On social media especially, you see "mere" humans being a lot more successful than you. Have you written about fame dynamics anywhere?
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