quote [ Pop was good, he argued, precisely because it was an industrially manufactured product. This new critical ideology soon crystallized into an "anti-anti-sellout movement" known as ?poptimism,? which gave fans of sophisticated culture blanket permission to engage with things made explicitly for profit. ]

quote [ @Narnold 15 hours ago
Its so weird how brains work, like l'm looking at this laughing at people spending money on overpriced shoes but then I look to my right and see my thousands of dollars worth of cardboard I collected over the years in Magic the Gathering cards, and feel shame.

@Boy_Boy 18 hours ago
Noooo, MTG is sick!
Its the greatest game in the world and it transcends consumerism ]

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(Ugh, I know. How crass.) ]

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quote [ As someone who last got stuck into online dating in the early 2010s, I tell you: OK Cupid is shit now and the people who changed it are cultural vandals. ]

quote [ It's a trait mostly assigned to people who start their own companies, seize opportunities that others miss, and never take "no" for an answer. High-agency people are rich, successful, or on their way to being both. ]

quote [ I had arrived at HR Tech most anxious about how a person is processed when they apply for a job, but it was more disquieting to learn how a person might be processed after getting one. ]

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