Mathematically and Economically Literate World: Rapid economic growth in India and China create record sales for low marginal cost information goods that achieve cross-cultural appeal by, for example, playing to base pleasures by displaying explosions and beautiful actors.
Most of the Headlines from a Mathematically Literate World. An example:
More of these gems, for the lazy:
Mathematically and Economically Literate World: Rapid economic growth in India and China create record sales for low marginal cost information goods that achieve cross-cultural appeal by, for example, playing to base pleasures by displaying explosions and beautiful actors.
In case anyone’s curious, here are the highest-grossing films, adjusted for inflation.
Notice the number of political digs among the clear ones.
Looks to me like around 4, with one of them being of no particular partisan orientation.
Okay, what’s special about that number, that I should notice it? Seems about what one would expect for a list of that length. A bit low, frankly.
The number doesn’t seem as important as the habit of noticing political digs, regardless of whether or not you agree with them.
Okay. I was just wondering why you said ‘number’ there.