in case you understood it before; this is the absolute best proof.
wealth and power simply don't make you cool.
zuck, elon, all these guys come off as more lame than the funny, poor as shit redneck you see at the grocery store, who is always cracking jokes and banging every milf in town.
like it's so wild to me, the reality is the net equalized us. celebrity, power, wealth, these things actually mean LESS now than ever.
the net is going to show us that fame, power, wealth, what the fuck does it mean?
oh i have millions of followers, that MEANS something!
okay here's a video of a cat cooking fries at Mickey D's. it's not real. it has 80,000,000 views.
yeah but....
like something being "popular" isn't the basis of an economy. the fact that something being "popular" means it's a "success" is the detriment of capitalism, and the digital world, which isn't restricted by supply and demand, is finally proving that.
before, if you wanted to see something, read something, hear something, you had to be there, or buy a book/magazine, or buy a record/tape.
there were only so many of these "things" that could be made. this created scarcity, even for extremely popular things. and if you didn't possess the actual thing, you couldn't experience it.
but now? you have a funny cute cat video? okay if 50,000,000 watch it, that prevents absolutely 0 people from watching it in the future.
but we're learning that entire thing is still pointless. does it really matter if more people watched Star Wars than Starships Invasions? does it matter if more people watch your cat video than someone else's bird video? this song more than that song?
we used to think so, because we made so much shit based on all that. but now it's fairly obvious there's no reason to ever make that real stuff, and the entire thing was a massive psyop anyway.
humanity is slowly realizing fame means nothing. it's just a random by-product of living on a planet with 8 billion other humans.