Severin Matusek
@severinmatusek
Writer and strategist, founder of co—matter
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- As traditional institutions lose credibility, more activity shifts to attention-based platforms.
- As more activity shifts to attention-based platforms, the incentives become more distorted.
- As the incentives become more distorted, traditional institutions lose more credibility.
kyla scanlon • From Dollar Dominance to the Slop Machine
I keep thinking about something Ezra said in our conversation - Trump embodies the attention economy so completely that he's become indistinguishable from it.
kyla scanlon • From Dollar Dominance to the Slop Machine
It's the perfect crystallization of what America has become: the world's most powerful content creator.
kyla scanlon • From Dollar Dominance to the Slop Machine
The Trump Administration has taken full advantage of this algorithm brain. We’ve entered the pure extraction phase of the economy, where things are created solely for consumption rather than purpose. I don’t mean this as a moralistic argument, it’s purely incentives, but it’s puzzling.
kyla scanlon • From Dollar Dominance to the Slop Machine
The takeaways? Consumers are redefining what value means to them, which is undoubtedly influencing how they shop. Discount and wholesale channels continue to attract consumers across age groups and income levels (for example, 80 percent of surveyed US Gen Zers report having shopped at a wholesaler in the previous month).29 Brands will need to strat... See more
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