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Research has shown that this mechanism, known as “expectation-disconfirmation,” is a big driver of choice overload.
The Decision Lab • Choice Overload
When institutional financial advice assumes you have disposable income, long time horizons, and faith in market stability – none of which apply to most young people7 –
How AI, Healthcare, and Labubu Became the US Economy
Verwoert asks how we can change the way our society lives as we consume our own products if we are performing and producing at a prolific rate?
Chloe Geoghegan • Tools for Slowing Down
Inner Chapter | The Aesthetics of Economic Upturn
innerchapter.co
nostalgia, capitalism and aesthetics in china.
The "aesthetics of economic upturn" refers to a nostalgic movement on Chinese social media that celebrates the visual and cultural style of China's millennial-era economic reform period. Unlike similar Western trends that focus on wealth displays, this Chinese version is more about middle-class aspiration and optimism.
The article suggests this nostalgia emerges because:
Current aesthetics are more class-conscious and restrictive
Economic conditions are tougher for young people
There's less genuine diversity in expression
People miss a time when differences were celebrated rather than standardized
Essentially, it's a longing for an era when China felt like it was opening up to infinite possibilities, before aesthetic choices became markers of social class and economic anxiety set in.
is it the same for other cultures?
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We Aren’t Here to Learn What We Already Know
Labubu6 are functionally plush bunnies with plastic people faces and the pointed teeth of a jack-o-lantern. They are sold in blind-box packaging (you don’t choose them, you open a box and receive your fate) by a Chinese company called Pop Mart (There's something strangely poetic about importing economic nihilism from China too. We're buying... See more
How AI, Healthcare, and Labubu Became the US Economy
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It is also a process of reducing some people to the level of micro-organism: putting them under a magnifying glass to peep into their private lives, secrets, taboos, thinking, and their sacred worlds.