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Re:Luxury hotels are being inundated with requests from self... by Analemma_ on Sunday June 17, 2018 @08:17PM (#17335118)
Exactly. At least Instagram has a visible number (your follower count) that is a decent proxy for what "level" you've reached. With "good old boys" networks it's totally opaque.
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Re:Luxury hotels are being inundated with requests from self... by sanderjd on Sunday June 17, 2018 @09:09PM (#17335289)
Why is that better?
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Re:Luxury hotels are being inundated with requests from self... by obelix_ on Monday June 18, 2018 @01:33AM (#17336166)
Cause now if NASA needs some extra funding they just need to convince Kim Kardashian (or whoever replaces her day after tomorrow on the top of the pyramid) of its importance. It's going to happen. Just watch.
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Re:Luxury hotels are being inundated with requests from self... by tenpies on Monday June 18, 2018 @09:00AM (#17337866)
The alarming thing is that after seeing the Kanye & Kardashian empire get more political, I can very much picture a future where we have Kanye is president in 2020 or 2024.

To put it in millennial marketing pseudo-jargon: how many likes = 1 vote?

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Re:Luxury hotels are being inundated with requests from self... by gregpilling on Monday June 18, 2018 @10:42AM (#17338597)
You mean like when Kanye said he would in 2015?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u9x92nwGf_M

Now that he has seen Trump get elected, I am sure he knows it is possible.

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Re:Luxury hotels are being inundated with requests from self... by Nasrudith on Monday June 18, 2018 @11:11AM (#17338806)
Transparency being a good thing and it being more honest and "meritocratic" (in a defined scope of merit as who can get the most eyeballs as opposed to useful to society or genuine talent). With good old boys network it is who you know not what you know. It is more dynamic as well than oligarchic networks.
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