When YouTube creators scale to millions, information drifts from education into entertainment. The business model reveals what’s really happening.
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I was in Brussels for FOSDEM and discovered that Europeans have hardcore bathroom capitalism — tap-to-pay turnstiles to use the toilet. Meanwhile, in “capitalist” America, bathrooms are free. The labels don’t match reality.
Recently, a friend shared a passage which struck him, from the book, The Zen and Art of Motorcycle Maintenance. It’s about being stuck, and you can read it here. I only made it 20% into this passage when knew that I’ve felt this feeling a thousand times. As a long time amateur auto mechanic, I’ve felt
We recently saw a black, mangy bird with one leg at a gas station on our way back to Savannah Georgia. It had that wild, crazy look. One of it’s eyes was hazy and it’s feathers were missing in places. It was hard to look at, but it was alive and it wasn’t giving up.
Like any symbol, rich and poor is very hard to define because it has a lot to do with our own perceptions. To me, it appears that we have two delineated groups of people who have shared understandings of what it means to be rich: The Bottom 80% consider the top 20% rich The top
