Re:The benefits of staying off social media
by handrous on Monday November 08, 2021 @12:11PM
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Yes, exactly that. Though the niches don't fully solve the problem of people being unable to fulfill any in-built need—assuming there is such—to express themselves artistically and be socially rewarded for that, because there still aren't enough "slots" near the tops of these various niches to let even 5% of the total population be fulfilled that way. Probably not even 1%.
Earlier today we had https://www.gwern.net/The-Melancholy-of-Subculture-Society , which I think ties into what you're saying here. And I think yours is a good observation. Day-to-day small scale entertainment has been reduced to zero or even negative value.