justanotherguy0

Even wild animals change their behavior when they get free stuff. Why do you think the zoo has big signs that say "do not feed the animals"?

Yup nothing binds us to that choice.

Just like nobody was forced to buy a model T. Nobody was forced to plug their phone line into their computer. Nobody was forced to get a streaming box.

This is happening because people desire it on the margin. And the network effects will make it more attractive each time somebody adopts it.

Value only requires that somebody is willing to pay for it. Any other measure of value is just moral relativism.

What purpose does The Simpsons fulfill in the physical world?

This is just a step further than what already exists. And it's already happening; nobody can stop it, no matter how many pearls you clutch.

Not being allowed to do things is called being regulated. So Facebook shouldn't be regulated in the same way that ATT is because they currently aren't being regulated in the same way that ATT is?

That's a bit pedantic.

At&t is a private company, and it isn't allowed to censor your calls for whatever clever or asinine reasons it comes up with.

Roasted. Media is broken.

I would expect the opposite. As the mechanical stuff becomes cheaper and more automated, the creative work decreases in proportion but increases in absolute terms.

Not optimized for mobile so I didn't read much and bounced.

The timescale is definitely different though.

Also it might be helpful for you to engage with the source text re:Turchin if you want to have conversations about his ideas.

I never claimed to be perfectly aligned with your opinion. I just agreed that the person you were responding to was off, in that the issue isn't whether or not people are "good enough."

Trump circumvented the traditional process for becoming president by aligning with the underclass...

The elites made fun of him relentlessly. Bannon ran Breitbart out of a random townhouse basement and was denied press credentials by those empowered in the national association.

The elite tried to block both of them, and they were circumvented by interclass alliance. That's the entire idea of elite overproduction, which is what we are talking about.

Elite overproduction is basically when more people have the resources to grab power than the power structure allows to hold power.

Not arguing that trump is a victim, just saying he has been considered gauche and passé for a long while. Gauche and passé ends up just meaning "not elite."

If you make a million dollars a year running a plumbing business, you are rich, but you aren't elite. If you make 400k at Skadden, you are closer to being elite.

Well it would be helpful if you did.

Maybe some nice corp would be willing to buy an issue of a journal so that you can publish and distribute the solution!

Horrible example but the basic idea is right. Social sciences are probably a better place to point to.