Benedict Evans

And, you know, he puts the slow moving expensive stuff at the top of the store and he puts food and makeup on the bottom of the store.

There's nothing new under the sun.

And meanwhile, the shopkeepers on the other side of the street are saying, like, have you seen what that maniac's doing now?

He's selling hats and gloves in the same shop.

He's got no moles.

He'll be selling fish next.

And of course, he's got this counter.

The whole plot point is about lost leaders.

So it's like, you can, again, you're going to step back and think, well, people have freaked out about industrialized mass-produced product before.

People have freaked out about there being too much content.

There's a line that Erasmus was the last person to have read every book.

There's too much AI content slop on the internet now.

Like, yeah, how many books do you think were being published in 1980?

Do you think everyone was reading all the books then?

Well, when I was a student, we were all supposed to be learning Japanese.

I think that was just the tail end of that.

You know, I was sort of lucky to have a sort of very expensive and old-fashioned and handcrafted education that was all about learning how to learn and learning how to think.

I think there are skills that people used to sneer at that probably shouldn't have been sneered at and certainly shouldn't now.

I mean, I'm old enough to remember when people would just sort of smugly say, well, I'm not computer literate.

So that was like being a car mechanic or something.