"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
Eichhorn uses the potent term “content capital”—a riff on Pierre Bourdieu’s “cultural capital”—to describe the way in which a fluency in posting online can determine the success, or even the existence, of an artist’s work.
“Cultural producers who, in the past, may have focused on writing books or producing films or making art must now also spend con... See more
“Cultural producers who, in the past, may have focused on writing books or producing films or making art must now also spend con... See more
Kyle Chayka • How the Internet Turned Us Into Content Machines
The difference between the lives of the 1% and the 99% is thrown in your face every day—an entire industry of simulated, flaunted wealth has developed around “influencers.” Wealth porn … a constant reminder: not of what you’ve achieved but what you haven’t.
Scott Galloway • The Algebra of Wealth: A Simple Formula for Success
Yet, ours is not truly an information economy. By definition, economics is the study of how a society uses its scarce resources. And information is not scarce - especially on the Net, where it is not only abundant, but overflowing. We are drowning in information, yet constantly increasing our generation of it. So a key question arises: Is there som... See more