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Quality decreases when access increases. twitter.com/hosteltranquil…
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Hostel Tranquilo
@hosteltranquilo
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If the free market provides 100 types of yogurt, even if the average yogurt quality reduces, its because the market seems to satisfy the desire of 100 niches, including a taste for the best yogurt ever commercially made
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What if it isn’t a free market, but a colluding oligopoly that in practice behaves as a monopoly?
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Hostel Tranquilo
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25. sij |
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Questionable. Search costs increase as variety increases, but available quality arguably goes up with more creators/participants.
E.g. AirBnB allows whatever scale of luxury vacation homes you can afford and find on the app, regardless of what happens to the ‘average’ experience
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u/1766
@lziics
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25. sij |
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Any org serving a mass market degrades its quality in the search for more users/customers. This is turn causes quality to rise in price.
The poor inside a gated market have a better life than the poor in an open market. The rich can exclude all poor in an open market.
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Zero HP Lovecraft
@0x49fa98
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25. sij |
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At least half the subjective enjoyment of a luxury good comes from the narrative that surrounds it.
Scarcity is a necessary component of luxury, so if everyone can get something, it’s not luxurious
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Hostel Tranquilo
@hosteltranquilo
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25. sij |
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Whether an item is luxurious is entirely subjective. Every moment is scarce, by definition.
Relying on a narrative is a fundamental (but common) corruption of an experience.
The Zen/psychedelic perspectives help with discarding narratives, turning every moment into a luxury.
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All Shadows
@as_i_decay
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Capital itself acts as the equalizer
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