Publicity Stunts
CNN is running a story about a college student who “lived” in a Wal-Mart for 41 hours. Skyler Bartels is a college student at Drake University who set out to spend a full week in a 24 hour Wal-Mart as both a test of endurance and the basis for a magazine article.
After only […]
This is an interesting article on Wired about how when it comes to virtual worlds, people supposedly get bored unless they are able to amass currency:
What if everything in life were free? You’d think we’d be happier. But game designers know better: We’d be bored.
Economics is loosely defined as choice under scarcity. After all, in […]
While this proved to be an unpopular topic the first time I delved into it, I still personally think it’s a pretty interesting line of thinking. So here we go again! In my post about living in a totalitarian state, reader jlhart7 writes:
The fact that we’re talking about this without being killed or imprisoned […]
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