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)
The Lipstick Economy of Ideas is Robust
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)