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The Lipstick Economy of Ideas might be fun to go along side "Luxury Beliefs", "Midwits", and "Cheems Mindset":

When the economy is down the drain, instead of the status-signaling "woke" ideas (naive utopianism that relies on the help of governments, NGOs, and corporate) (Michael-like), people naturally regress towards merit-ish MAGA/IDW-esque (Dwight-like) performance artistry. https://robkhenderson.substack.com/p/status-symbols-and-the-struggle-for https://danco.substack.com/p/michael-dwight-and-andy-the-three

But still, like all cosmetic ideas, it is always about aesthetics (crass ambitions) before function (reason and empathy). This type of "midwit" cost-cutting compromise leads to half-baked results as the trend of "cheems mindset". If any idea sounds like a "productivity hack" it is inherently SUS. https://cactus.substack.com/p/its-the-midwits-stupid https://normielisation.substack.com/p/cheems-mindset https://normielisation.substack.com/p/personal-cheems-mindset https://archive.ph/kcUtW

Who here is in favor of more lip balm and less lipstick, more self care and less makeup?

Side joke: the quote "you can put lipstick on a pig, but it is still a pig" applies to any companies that makes the same mistakes as FTX. The scientific name of a pig is SUS. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bU-m_363k5w (damn this is too juvenile)

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