In a true leisure society, everyone's life becomes a pure costly signal. Peacockonomics.
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this would be true if art couldn't find ways to help people wirehead on belonging
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actually, most peacocking is collective tribal peacocking, so that's included in my formulation for free
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In unbounded system, equilibrium can mean secular (non-periodic, non-stationary) motion. See for eg en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Turnpike_
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@themattsimpson Theme parks have meaningful equilibria. Amusement parks do not. The economy is mostly amusement park.
@cigardubey @themattsimpson Math metaphor. Interior equilibria = meaningful, boundary equilibria=meaningless.
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@cigardubey @themattsimpson Cultural notion of optimum is usually "peak" something ("golden age"). "Peak" is interior idea
@cigardubey @themattsimpson literal believers in permaculture are a minority though. Most are sort of happy with illusion.
@cigardubey @themattsimpson Both literal back to land primitivists and some permaheaven-on-earth ideologues seem sincere.


