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ted (not lasso)
@ted
my loosely held, emerging opinion on crypto’s parallels to fast fashion: the fashion industry produces over 100b products a year, with SHEIN alone adding 10k new product per day (!!). the average product is worn 7-10x before it’s discarded. imo the SHEIN-ification of fashion hasn’t been a net good. it has eroded the cultural and material value of what we wear. people don’t build identities around disposable clothes the same way they build identities around LVMH, Rolex, Levi’s, and other enduring brands that compound meaning over time. the “everything is a token” mantra puts crypto much closer to SHEIN than to LVMH. what once required thought and community (launching a token) has become a game of quantity over quality, and humans aren’t built for infinite new things. the “conceptual Dunbar’s Number” puts a psychological cap on what we can meaningfully track and care about and so the norm in fashion will too apply to crypto: engage an average of 7-10x (if that!) before discarding.
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@six
possibly a bit reductive but feel slop is kinda the catch all term for this fast fashion --> wearable slop token launchpads --> onchain slop ai --> text and image slop etc etc that being said i feel this is sort of the purpose of technology, democratization of everything. in theory this places even more value for the things imbued w care and intention
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ted (not lasso)
@ted
yes i agree with all of that but the main concern is at the end where our brains actually aren’t designed or adjusted for this, even if technology is unlocking it. wasteful gives me the ick.
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will
@w
"slop is the opposite of care"
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nick
@nickysap
Agreed. On balance, excessive slop makes it easier to stand out. Everyone wearing fast fashion notices the well-dressed man/woman. Everyone rolling turbo shitters sees the value in a well built token economy. Everyone vibe coding is impressed by well-architected systems with great UX. Whether consciously or subconsciously, the mediocre will always be enamored with the exceptional. Even if the latter only represents 0.01% of the sample.
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Jason
@jachian
the democratization of it always first gets labeled as slop. now it's AI and yesterday it was cameras
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Mr. Wildenfree 🐺🍵🎵
@mrwildenfree
Agreed & greatly appreciate this sentiment.
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JR ↑
@juli
The Crazy thing is that Tech makes it easier to produce more complex, better products at affordable prices but 99.99% people just see the first step (function) and stick with slop - because they realize the productivity gain but don‘t want to put the same effort in (which would lead to much bigger outcomes)
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Trejo
@trej
I think part of her point is that even things that are positioned under care and attention are still treated as “fast fashion” of tokens. People have been trained in general to move on to the next and look for that win/endorphin hit. How do we transition into a high value iconic/functional utility when people are more than willing to cast a project aside within a month of its launch. Regardless of value.
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