Last time this happened in the US was during GFC.
Mercedes-Benz and BMW "went into hiding" instead of Birkins.
Who's they? Members of every generation have to become class-conscious at some point, no? Some just pick it up quicker, perhaps through a European classic novel or a Great Depression archival newspaper.
While traveling by car during one of his many overseas travels, Professor Milton Friedman spotted scores of road builders moving earth with shovels instead of modern machinery. When he asked why powerful equipment wasn’t used instead of so many laborers, his host told him it was to keep employment high in the construction industry. If they used tractors or modern road building equipment, fewer people would have jobs was his host’s logic.
“Then instead of shovels, why don’t you give them spoons and create even more jobs?” Friedman inquired.
Yes, hence why "if you have nothing to hide" is infamously so stupid a phrase. You don't get to decide that, the accuser does and who the accuser is may vary and may in fact be utterly deranged by all normal points of view. You don't want the information out there period because it can only end in an especially twisted form of Pascal's Wager based upon who is in power at the moment. And that this is not in fact a paranoid hypothetical but something very real which has happened throughout history.
I'll buy someone a coffee if they propose a state-space model that identifies a location on the author's plane as a function of time and incentives :^)
I was thinking about how to describe the interactions between all possible pairings under a variety of circumstances, like on an axis of virtuous vs conflicting.
David Goggin's public persona comes to mind as an extreme example.
He frames his journey as one that involved embracing pain and discomfort.
Now he preaches it incessantly like a sort of addict to masochism.
I think this highlights the point of the study which attempts to say, instead of avoiding discomfort one could welcome it with the added risk that you become some sort of firestarter in the sense that you now cannot sit with being comfortable.
A natural extension of this work may be to study at what point does burnout occur.
He's a rather an extreme example and probably not applicable to most situations we are involved in. Most things in life only required consistency and adherence to long term effort to achieve 'success'.
Who's they? Members of every generation have to become class-conscious at some point, no? Some just pick it up quicker, perhaps through a European classic novel or a Great Depression archival newspaper.