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As I mentioned in a previous piece, cities are agglomerations of different classes of people. For each high-paying creative job, there are about five low-paying service jobs. People from different backgrounds and classes tolerate (or enjoy) each other’s company because they have to: High-income folk need access to services, and low-income folk need access to service jobs. The latter also aspire to move up economically by living in proximity to better-paid people.
Rise of the 10X Class
drorpoleg.com
Or, if you stay in an expensive hotel, you might find your room is always as you want it, with your minifridge fully stocked with your favorites and any toiletries you forgot provided. The staff work behind the scenes to make this happen, without you needing to make requests.
Why Life Can’t Be Simpler
fs.blog
Today’s weapons of addiction aren’t just sports gambling and booze and drugs but also day trading, social media, video games, processed fast food, phones and tablets, the bullets provided by social media firms headed by fucked up men-children, the goal being to create in us a simulacrum of their own probably wretched boyhoods. As my NYU colleague Jonathan Haidt put it, the unconstrained combination of phones and social media has been “the largest uncontrolled experiment humanity has ever performed on its own children.”
Notes on Being a Man
Scott Galloway
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