Thursday, April 19, 2018
Convective corollary
Convective connection:
Absolute fact: Human status is permanent. If you're born with low status, nothing you can do will raise your status. You can buy status prostheses, but they don't fool anyone. If you're born with high status, nothing you can do will lower your status. You're free to do all sorts of evil without changing your status.
Corollary: Status is also a permanent property of human products. This is somewhat less absolute than human status because it's partly constrained by limits of cost and practicality. Within the boundaries, it doesn't matter which product is more efficient or easier to use or more advanced technology. The product with more buzz and higher status will win.
In other words,
Popularity is popular.
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