Tag: Consumerism
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#173: Blessed are the Contentmakers
This week’s conversation starts with a small moral dilemma: why is it so easy to consume endless hours of online content, yet oddly difficult to part with even a few euros to support the people making it? From there we wander through the economics of the modern “content economy” and the accumulation of monthly fees that comes with living online. Along the way we reflect on how value is assigned (or not) to digital work, whether audiences have simply hit subscription fatigue, and what happens when AI joins the ranks of the contentmakers. As usual, the discussion drifts into neighbouring territory: the changing role of universities, the consumerist society, and the slightly unsettling sense that information - and perhaps expertise - is becoming both cheaper and harder to price. (This description was generated with the help of AI; this episode features AI-generated speech)
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#137: An Anti-Consumerist Screed
Ian and Michael discuss window shopping as a pastime, planned obsolescence in a variety of products, and the impact of our ever inceasing appetite for consumption. (This episode was recorded prior to the recent introduction of new US tariffs)