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Runescape: There were two factors that made skill capes so desirable. First, they weren’t tradeable, you couldn’t buy your way to success... I bring up Runescape because skill capes are an example of scarcity through time and labor.

The physical locations that survive this extended pause will likely reopen with a focus on high-touch clienteling and luxury service, where shop visits are appointment-only (or tightly controlled and restricted) and oriented around consumer experience rather than pure sales.

the main attraction of web3 might not be decentralization, but rather what economists call excludability — it will be stuff people pay for, rather than free stuff.

Doordash and Uber both emerged as leaders delivering from individual stores to individual customers. However, both have been expanding into owned microwarehouses as this model could be more profitable in certain categories, like convenience, grocery, and other consumer categories.

At a macro level, this trend represents a slow shift away from consumer social apps that optimize solely for engagement toward those that optimize for more user happiness. Studies have shown that engaging in physical activity can make people happier, and thus more fulfilled.

Several theories have been proposed, some less plausible than others. The dullness of long, dark winters is a common suggestion. The melodic nature of the language is another. It has also been pointed out that Sweden has the highest concentration of choirs in the world — eight percent of the population are active singers. Then there is th

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