07-20-2022, 07:14 AM
The devil-may-care hedonism of a 3T wears thin and proves ineffective or exploitative, if not both. The means may vanish, and the fun is either no longer available or priced out of range. What you said of Tinder applies to much that used to be a free enticement for many things in the 3T from journalism to pop music. It's gone from "Try this" to "you get what you pay for" to "you pay, and oh, do you pay, for what little you get". People may discover that they can live without newspapers, cable TV, and overt hedonism.
There may be a justification for "you pay, and oh do you pay, for what little you get". Raising prices for a smaller number of customers may be what is necessary for preventing another economic meltdown such as those of 1929 and 2008.
This may also create opportunities for undercutters in every imaginable field of economic activity.
There may be a justification for "you pay, and oh do you pay, for what little you get". Raising prices for a smaller number of customers may be what is necessary for preventing another economic meltdown such as those of 1929 and 2008.
This may also create opportunities for undercutters in every imaginable field of economic activity.
The ideal subject of totalitarian rule is not the convinced Nazi or the dedicated Communist but instead the people for whom the distinction between fact and fiction, true and false, no longer exists -- Hannah Arendt.