🆕 “Geeks, MOPs, and sociopaths in subculture evolution” (riffing on ’s Gervais Principle) meaningness.com/metablog/geeks
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i.e., you're suggesting that when subcultures grow up, they become economies, not cultures in historical sense
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There’s an optimal scale mismatch between subcultures and subsocieties, I think. The 1980s-90s failure was trying to force them2concide
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Optimal subsociety size is dozens to thousands; optimal subculture size is millions. How to bridge that gap?

