[coldtea]

Historically good stuff "stands the test of time and rises to the top" when it is not drown out by the bad stuff.

Gold nuggets among some scaterred garbage are still findable. But 10x gold nuggets burried in a massive landfill mountain created by automated garbage (slop) producing machines, would be much harder to be found. And people are more likely to give up, than to have to shift through the tons of garbage.

And that's ignoring the foul smell and health conditions arising from having to live next to all this garbage (which, in this analogy, is the social and cultural impact).

Also ignoring how living by garbage influeces your taste and numbs your smell, which ends up creating less good stuff. "Just churn more stuff to get more good art", is like losing in profit but making it up in volume.

>It's evolutionary fitness operating in the space of ideas.

More like a shoo-in nomination for civilizational Darwin Awards.