The quality <-> commodity barbell

Substack’s tagline— “a new economic engine for culture”—hides a paradox: high-brow and high-growth rarely coexist.

Consumer demand for smaller scale and human-crafted versions of everything will grow in an AI world. While the future of work might lend itself to small business creation, let’s ****not forget the demand side of the equation. We are going to crave artisanal and story-driven sources and experiences. Why? As every big company floods the zone of our... See more

as every brand floods the zone w/ personalized and ever-optimized content, where will our preferences shift? when anything becomes commoditized and ubiquitous, humans tend to crave the opposite. perhaps "the creator economy" will shift to a "meaning economy?" https://t.co/2Fdsx1oyZa