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Why Does It Seem Like Everybody Hates Everything?

Plain English with Derek Thompson

CHAPTER

The End of the Monoculture

I've, i've a theory tha kind of connects the end of the monoculture to the s of negativity. So there's this idea in ecology called nich partitioning. The best way to develop your niche is to position yourself antagonistically against your competition. And so in environments of abundant actors and finite resources, it makes sense to have heightened antagonism within the system. I don't know, necessarily, if why you believe that the resources are finite. The resources seem to be expanding.

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