"The economy is just smart people paying beautiful people to promote stuff to insecure people." — @ShaanVP
"The economy is just smart people paying beautiful people to promote stuff to insecure people." — @ShaanVP
It seems we live in a confused economy where price has little relation to value and growth doesn’t necessarily translate into increased welfare or happiness.
Paul Behrens • The Best of Times, The Worst of Times: Futures from the Frontiers of Climate Science
With information effortlessly transferable at zero marginal cost and social platforms that blast content to the top of everyone’s feed, it’s difficult to for an ethics based on scarcity to sustain itself.
subpixel space • After Authenticity
Some Friday thoughts on Why Some Ppl Make So Much Money??
(and some thoughts on solving wealth inequality)...
To quote Fight Club again, “We buy things we don’t need, to impress people we don’t like.”
Ryan Holiday • The Daily Stoic: 366 Meditations on Wisdom, Perseverance, and the Art of Living: Featuring new translations of Seneca, Epictetus, and Marcus Aurelius
With information effortlessly transferable at zero marginal cost and social platforms that blast content to the top of everyone’s feed, it’s difficult to for an ethics based on scarcity to sustain itself.