
I’m worried what it MEANS is that there is no apparent future for teenagers.
For decades, music gave kids their first sense that something NEW was HAPPENING that they could be part of, and it was exciting to see what would happen NEXThttps://twitter.com/Meaningness/status/1309957632636022785 …
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Just a more extreme version of what happened to tv. Once you go on-demand streaming it is cheaper for everybody to discover music that’s _new to them_ than for musicians to make music that’s new for everybody. Discourse dies because most points were already made when it was new.
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It’s actually an economic effect similar to opening up trade. For a while, until you have exhausted globally undistributed wealth separated by comparative advantage barriers, there’s more value in trade than innovation. Smithian over Schumpeterian growth as Joel Mokyr calls it.
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I wonder what medium will be the new way to imagine / signal hope for the future for the kids...
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It *was* tiktok until that fell victim to trade war
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Am I more out of touch than I thought?
What does this MEAN??