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This is because over time, our advancing technology has made us more efficient at harvesting those other commodities. However, gold’s extreme scarcity and rather strict stock-to-flow ratio of over 50x has made it so that our technology advancements in finding and mining gold are offset by the fact that we’ve already mined the “easy” gold deposits and the remaining deposits are getting deeper and harder. We never truly get more efficient at retrieving gold, in that sense. It’s a built-in ongoing difficulty adjustment.
What Is Money, Anyway?
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The industry that most avidly grabbed on to the term “creative” to glamorize what it did was the very motor of consumerism: advertising. In the nineteen-fifties and sixties, ad agencies abandoned the old “reason why” mode of advertising a product (“Here is what you need it for”) and replaced it with branding. They were no longer selling a product. They were selling an idea about the product. People were buying an image they wanted to be associated with. It was the adman’s job to create that image.
The Origins of Creativity
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The new Brand Indicators for Message Identification (BIMI) internet standards draft lets businesses display their logos next to their emails (as the sender/contact photo).
Get Your Logo Into Inboxes With BIMI and Email Best Practices
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