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STATUS: Does Our Need for It Explain ... Everything?
The Next Big Idea
The Internet Sings Song Derision
The internet is very effective at singing song derision, right? Yeah. It's a gossip network and it does trim the sales and reduce status in order to try to encourage more virtuous and more communal behavior. And we can see the tribe circling the prized hunter and singing a song of derision when Elon Musk or Bezos or Mark Zuckerberg is acting like a selfish prick. In those cases, this brings to mind a quote from John Lennon of The Beatles, who I believe said, The Beatles stop being a band when we stop going into record stores and trying to improve on our favorite singles.
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