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I appreciate this clarity. Although this makes sense in the "capitalism ftw" I think this is where unconscious capitalism is actually immature, and in the long run unsustainable. Essentially bc of short-term thinking.... - onAs cities like Austin cater to coastal transplants, their unique culture gets diluted, becoming more generic. Is cultural entropy inevitable, or is there a counterforce?bythebedshow...
I think the issue that you are trying to counter is fundamentally not able to be countered. Those "generic" things take over because they are generic because that is what the vast majority of people spend money on.... - onSome folks in NYC turned an apartment into a community space in a way that sounds (at least on the face of it) pretty delightful: https://supernuclear.substack.com/p/case-study-merlins-placebyArun...
When it opened in May, we were nervous about whether people would actually use the space, but merlins place has become the de facto gathering + event space for everyone in our extended circles at Fractal, and it hardly sees any downtime these days :) I believe Fractal is its own... I want a new archetype for libertarian well-being activist
Maybe it’s an old archetype and some German philosophers have been talking abt it for centuries… My climbing gym is called Crux; the original location is moving because the rent is too high, and the landlord won’t work with the climbing gym… The gym is in a part of the city that...