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It's More Than Just Vibes
A vibecession is the idea of a disconnect between consumer sentiment and economic data. So basically, the economy is doing fine, but people are absolutely not feeling fine.
Kyla Scanlon • It's More Than Just Vibes
So it does seem that education, dating, and the grift economy are all rooted in the same underlying problem of shallow attention, monetized anxiety, and eroded competence.
1) An always-entertained population is in a vortex where attention is power and sincerity is optional. Of course people are not going to be not good... See more
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Her concept has more depth than those theories. I would characterize economic vibes as collective feelings in the digital age. Almost all previous versions of economic theory around consumer sentiment have been formed in a pre-internet world. Until now, no one had updated those frameworks for the age of algorithms. When I emailed Scanlon about how... See more