The closer you get to leisure class the more ambitions barbellize: trivial, like seeking out the best chips, or save-the-world. Nothing in between. Does not bode well for postscarcity utopian dreams. They will be unstable.
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Heh that's actually a major theme in the novel i'm working on; most musicians are LARPing for the sake of participating in a scene
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Successful entertainers need not necessarily be talented artists, just professional narcissists (not necessarily judging but stating matter-of-factly)
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How does this jive with the likes of buffet, gates, and others trying to shape a legacy?
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Gates is literally hunting diseases (polio, malaria) the way less imaginative millionaires hunt wild animals. Idk about Buffett
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