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If you’re wondering, this observation about median income is not a secret, but we haven’t yet given it the correct interpretation. The American left has pointed out and indeed stressed measures of stagnant median income, but it usually blames politics, insufficient redistribution, or poor educational opportunities rather than considering the idea o
... See moreTyler Cowen • The Great Stagnation: How America Ate All The Low-Hanging Fruit of Modern History, Got Sick, and Will (Eventually) Feel Better: A Penguin eSpecial from Dutton
In this frivolous new world, everything must be pleasing and inoffensive. Everything and everybody gets marketed like an exciting new product—even old, creepy politicians, or ancient film actors, or 80-year-old rock stars.
They all get repackaged and rebranded—thank the digital gods for those apps that make old stuff look new! Everything is now eas... See more
They all get repackaged and rebranded—thank the digital gods for those apps that make old stuff look new! Everything is now eas... See more
Ted Gioia • Is There a Crisis of Seriousness?
He felt that he was seeing people become more unempathetic, angry, and hostile as their social-media use went up.
Johann Hari • Stolen Focus: Why You Can't Pay Attention--and How to Think Deeply Again
But what is their definition of the oppressed? It is not the economically oppressed that they have come to defend but the culturally oppressed.
George Friedman • The Storm Before the Calm: America's Discord, the Coming Crisis of the 2020s, and the Triumph Beyond
Still, I think something more fundamental has been lost for all of us as social media has evolved. It’s harder to find the spark of discovery, or the sense that the Web offers an alternate world of possibilities. Instead of each forging our own idiosyncratic paths online, we are caught in the grooves that a few giant companies have carved for us al... See more
Kyle Chayka • Coming of Age at the Dawn of the Social Internet | The New Yorker
This silicon union of intellect and action creates a culture fond of big ideas. The expectation that anyone sufficiently intelligent can grasp, and perhaps master, any conceivable subject incentivizes technologists to become conversant in as many subjects as possible. The technologist is thus attracted to general, sweeping ideas with application ac... See more