Agree/disagree with this one. Agree with live in abundance, or more to the point, over-consumption, but that is a developed world view. There are plenty who live in scarcity. On that note, birth rates are declining in our world but globally we have doubled population in my lifetime alone and still we grow. So there are more eyes. Reducing Taylor Swift to charisma masks the fact that nearly all the old and new OGs but in hours of graft. Many as children. Ed Sheeran sang on the streets and performed to empty gigs but he did not give up. Which leads me to an omission in your list of potentials: genuine experience and expertise. I will argue we are over the age of fast and easy that the Internet era and everything since facilitated. As people become disgruntled with everything online that may or may not be if substance and either way still means doing something themselves, they will want humans. Humans who can answer IRL without being propped up by a machine. That is the argument you make for luxury, as in craft (albeit I would argue the LVs of this world are out, as years of cheap labour and mass franchise catch up with them. There are a lot of people who don't care if it's real or not, as long as it looks expensive). The big question is when a shift back to real expertise will happen. As the NY Times recently pointed out, a 'short term period of adjustment' could mean someone's lifetime. As easy gets hard, I hope we really do shift our focus to the things that really do need solving: affordable housing, affordable care that does not damage its workers, affordable and accessible healthcare and solutions to major illnesses. The era of easy arguably gave us the era of endless crap. If that is coming to an end, then amen to that
it’s important not to conflate the hyper-abundance concept with things like cost of living, poverty, or all that stuff. That’s another topic, and another form of abundance.
This is more about the proliferation of goods, services, and distractions.
I’d also say that someone is not “reduced” to charisma, but “elevated” to it. The thing people are reduced to is graft, because to become any sort of successful musician (let alone taylor swift) is gonna be super hard work. Graft is the price of buying a ticket, surely.
But yes totally with you on the end of the era of fast and easy. Well, I’m not sure it is ending, but it should end, because it is leading to a generalise reduction in quality which I must admit I didnt’ anticipate happening in my lifetime.
Haha will have to add “enshittifying” to my vocabulary
This is a wonderful interview with the guy that coined the word, it’s a treat because he speaks the truth
Interesting! I just did a search to look this up - is it someone called Cory Doctorow?
yeah the whole concept is awesome, and deeply true!
Yes, the YouTube link didn’t paste before https://youtu.be/rHHYql5Vsmk?si=shE0DbvudGNSg1Ea
Agree/disagree with this one. Agree with live in abundance, or more to the point, over-consumption, but that is a developed world view. There are plenty who live in scarcity. On that note, birth rates are declining in our world but globally we have doubled population in my lifetime alone and still we grow. So there are more eyes. Reducing Taylor Swift to charisma masks the fact that nearly all the old and new OGs but in hours of graft. Many as children. Ed Sheeran sang on the streets and performed to empty gigs but he did not give up. Which leads me to an omission in your list of potentials: genuine experience and expertise. I will argue we are over the age of fast and easy that the Internet era and everything since facilitated. As people become disgruntled with everything online that may or may not be if substance and either way still means doing something themselves, they will want humans. Humans who can answer IRL without being propped up by a machine. That is the argument you make for luxury, as in craft (albeit I would argue the LVs of this world are out, as years of cheap labour and mass franchise catch up with them. There are a lot of people who don't care if it's real or not, as long as it looks expensive). The big question is when a shift back to real expertise will happen. As the NY Times recently pointed out, a 'short term period of adjustment' could mean someone's lifetime. As easy gets hard, I hope we really do shift our focus to the things that really do need solving: affordable housing, affordable care that does not damage its workers, affordable and accessible healthcare and solutions to major illnesses. The era of easy arguably gave us the era of endless crap. If that is coming to an end, then amen to that
it’s important not to conflate the hyper-abundance concept with things like cost of living, poverty, or all that stuff. That’s another topic, and another form of abundance.
This is more about the proliferation of goods, services, and distractions.
I’d also say that someone is not “reduced” to charisma, but “elevated” to it. The thing people are reduced to is graft, because to become any sort of successful musician (let alone taylor swift) is gonna be super hard work. Graft is the price of buying a ticket, surely.
But yes totally with you on the end of the era of fast and easy. Well, I’m not sure it is ending, but it should end, because it is leading to a generalise reduction in quality which I must admit I didnt’ anticipate happening in my lifetime.