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by tuan 410 days ago
> I think what we're witnessing isn't just an extension of the attention economy but something new - the simulation economy

Is it really new? We've been replacing real human connections with online connections/friendships for quite a while now. Social media companies have been giving us a world full of simulated relationships and making profits off of it. As quoted in the post, the average American adult has 3 friends. Look how many friends they have on FB.

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> Look how many friends they have on FB.

I can't tell if you mean it literally, or you're adopting the FB nomenclature, but in my mind that FB edge is just labeled friend, and is not the relationshipStatus between the nodes

I have a to of "connections" on LinkedIn, too, but I can assure you I am not "connected" to hardly any of them

I like to call our latest economy the jester economy. No longer is it a service economy, but one of influencers, reality tv, and most lately, TikTok stars. We even have a reality tv star for US President!