4 posts tagged “economics”

My reasons for this aren't to do with her platform, or with any kind of support for Barack Obama, but Hillary should drop out, now. 

See, first her Husband puts me and others like me out of work and now, did you notice how much of her non-payment was to event staff? She's stiffing people exactly like me. She's loathsome for that.

I changed a few things about the blog a week or so ago. Here's why: I believe in the Long Tail . So, the name serves for that, quite nicely. It's a reference to The New Fast Automatic Daffodils who had a song of the same title. Which was a riff on The Pop Group . Which was a situationist name for a band. So, naming my blog that is kind of like a Dennis Miller reference: it just gets more obscure the more you look into it. At the same time, the sentiment is somewhat revolutionary, in a pop culture way, in that "mass" culture, where everyone watches the same TV programs, hears the same Radio programs, and so on, is getting replaced by the infinitely more satisfying "niche" culture. With Netflix bringing us movies on demand, and Amazon stocking everything under the sun, and the rise of Etsy, Ebay, crafting, etc, etc, etc, nothing has to be 'mass" anymore. If long tail economics work (and I think they do) everything can be "bespoke". So, how much longer do we tolerate mass culture, before that detritus is lost to history?

I actually agree with McCain. I don't think that it's the place of government to assume risk, unless government can regulate against risk, in the same action.

This article  points out the same futility I've noticed for years in "buying alternative". So many of us think that simply because we shop at one store over against another that we're somehow making a statement of individuality. Buying is buying, and selling is selling. It's not enough to boycott this multinational, and support that multinational. If you want a revolution, something has to change.

Maybe you don't want a revolution. Maybe you just want to be left alone. Won't happen here. The fact is: so much of what we hold as so important might not be.

Oh, and to answer my own question: The son of Incorporated. There is never any escape.