Fair point. Except I don’t post, follow feeds only, put nothing about my personal life in my profile, and they asked for my birthday.
So my point was aimed more at advertisers buying on Twitter: they filled in the blanks and got them all wrong. And the one they had the data for they got wrong.
That and I’m not a internet consumer really. Twitter can see I’ve blocked over 1,000 accounts that promoted tweets. Is that statistic being shared with advertisers?
You can compare it to public domain work. They are free, as in beer, because their creator is long dead or chose to put them there. He's not gaining anything in return like companies are.
I do, and I'm happy to pay for consulting services or new features. I'm talking about incentives not the validity of business models. This idea is very interesting, but without a business model I'm hesitant to add them as a dependency, that's all.
This reminds me of the article the other day about the internet being an SEO wasteland
Basically our business networks run the same way (not a shock at all): sycophants spam aristocratic investors with half assed bullshit solutions to juice the odds of hooking one
The obvious is a robust welfare state. I mean it seems pretty clear to now that inequality goes up, social stability decreases, major overhaul, a generation of babysitting it... like just stop pandering to the meme we can’t afford universal healthcare and college education. Cause we also cannot afford leashing the next generation to soon to dead men’s gambling debts.
But that effectively ends the point in aristocracy, the meme that we must cater to all these rugged individuals living off grandpas old money. So that’ll never fly.
Violent revolt it is! Front row to the apocalypse! /s
This is more like “rich westerners chasing FOMO feels”.
I have a hard time supporting politically that we owe deference to a minority experiencing shallow novelty and calling them life dreams, given the externalized costs foisted on society as a whole.
There are peaks closer and the difference in sensory experience is marginal.
This is just “more money than I can spend so I’ll shovel it a little at everything.” Which is politically indefensible given how society is manipulated to enable it.
I say "lifetime dream" because, within that context, $50,000 is probably a good, achievable budget for the lifetime dream of probably north of a billion people in the world. Maybe two billion; I haven't looked at world demographics lately.
$50,000 is enough to do any one of starting a small business, or owning a classic car, or getting a masters degree in a subject you enjoy, or to own a boat or a tiny prop plane, or take a year or two off to try to write the next great novel, or buy a small plot of land in the wilderness to put a cabin on, or take a pretty fantastic round-the-world trip, or serve as a down payment on a small house in much of the US, maybe a fixer-upper depending on your location, or to throw a really amazing wedding. Or to climb Mount Everest.
Any one; if you aren't a rich asshole, you only get to pick one (or if you're a rich SWE, like 4-5). But, like, a lot of people can scrimp and save and take out a second mortgage and do one.
I understand why you think wanting to climb Mount Everest is a stupid dream, and I'm sure that a hearty number of the climbers are rich assholes who don't bat an eye at dropping $50k on something they don't really care about. And heck, most of the people who do dream of climbing Everest aren't in the physical shape to actually go and do it.
But still, it's a pretty common dream of a lifetime, of the right scale that a huge number of people are able to attempt it.
It's more that Everest is the highest peak in the world. If there was another mountain 10m higher than Everest, Everest would get 5-10% of the traffic it currently does.
How many people know the second highest mountain in the world? It's K2, most people have at least heard of it. How about the third highest? Kangchenjunga. Never heard of it, had to Google it.
So for people who want a recognizable achievement, Everest is pretty much the top. Not just in climbing, but any physical achievement. Unless Nepal restricts the number of climbers, it will only get worse.
K2 and Kangchenjunga are also much harder to get to than Everest. For example, the Indian government does not permit access to Kangchenjunga, and the northern routes from Nepal are in (relatively, for Nepal) remote areas.
K2 is so remote that there was no local name for it (hence, the designation K2).
The article says so many people are doing it, the techniques are so well known, there’s little new info to glean in the activity itself, so it’s basically Xbox achievements for people with excess money as far as my subjective take on its value.
Our economy is so ridiculously hung up on gamifying FOMO and statistics to satisfy yet another gameified endeavor in financial economics.
And we rip tons of resources out of the ground each year to support our generation diddling their novelty button.
All I mean is I’m pretty done supporting the marketing BS of a bunch of aristocrats.
They don’t have the political power to entirely privatize immigration policing. But their platform is “small government”, so the budgets are as tiny as possible, which devolves right into dehumanizing results.
Not to be glib, but going to your job is what is measured, and taken implicitly as approval for it all.
In the end it underlies their motives for finding ways to normalize the public to the social march we’ve been tapping our toes to: shuffling along to their businesses, propping up their immense gains.
Stop giving deference to aristocratic rhetoric if you actually care.
You made connections between things and the workplace that the parent did not imply to my eye.
It was an array and you started making a dict, assuming whatever connections you wanted.
See Americans are trained to not be so gaudy but quietly believe in these things. I see it all the time when I actually push people to share their political views. Democrats and liberal minded folks totally ok with bombing the Middle East and making life cheaper and easier for America.
So I guess it’s something of a ymmv, depending on whether you actively dig or just idly observe.
I think what the internet has shown is we all have wildly varying ideas of what being free means at an individual scale but at a macro social like scale pretty much just follow the corporate drum beat.
I’m 39, divorced, and have 2 kids
It’s almost as if the big data sales pitch is an epic joke like nuclear powered everything being pitched in the 50s