In some ways the victim of their own success, that’s just the way this system is built, for better or worse (mostly worse). The incentives drive the behaviour, but the architecture is hostile in nature, so it’s hard to have different outcomes at a certain level. Infinite growth is literal cancer.
Rock bottom is wherever you stop digging
It’s not hype, it’s a threat
The symptom, not the disease
There’s always infinite time and money in the void of delusion we call home
Happened in the 70s, and unless we can do something about it, it’ll happen again most likely
It may be more likely that the color casting of older film media doesn’t represent the true colour of the object at the time
My micro economics would tell me it’s that the demand curve is shifting upwards, while the supply curve is at best the same, of not going lower (currently), so the intersecting price where they meet goes up. While it may be artificial, more demand on the same supply increases prices typically. Depending on the elasticity of the demand for the product (toys VS household electricity costs for example), the market will bare the increases if it deems it essential.
But those were lessons from 15 years ago, this brave new world of open corruption and greed have probably up ended some of those concepts. The circular fake economy of a half a dozen tech companies can probably only sustain itself for so long, I guess we’ll see how it all pans out
We’re allowed to call it retarded now at least
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Almost as if misinformation is the product either way you slice it