The Economy of Mediocrity

What is the market saturation point for flavored vodka?

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Was there ever a candidate that represented the Economy of Mediocrity more than Hillary Clinton?

#nowecant

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When you plonk down your $12 at the local multiplex, the expectation is that for the next couple of hours you are not only going to be taken to another world, y

”Exhibition shouldn’t work in such a way that you present the worse possible version of the film until someone in the audience complains...

...we’re paying the same for a cinema ticket as we were before, so where are all these marvelous savings [from digital projection]?”

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Dear The Sun Times,

You have to make your content marginally noticeable and recognizable. Do you want me to look at ads or sign up for your emails or social media accounts because no human brain is going to do both looking at this mess of calls to action. 

PS, JESUS-FUCK, MY EYES!!!!

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A dumb showbizness math thought:

I bet if you added up the revenue generated from all the cast members of SNL and averaged it out over the years it’s been on and the amount of cast members it has had VS the revenue generated from all the cast members of The State and averaged it out over the years it was on and the amount of cast members it had, you would be able to prove that The State was a MUCH more successful show. 

Well, probably not but, you get the jist. 

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Heinz... I can’t believe you have the ability to cash in on sriracha hysteria but lack the foresight for bourbon barrel aged ketchup. Where’s your bacon ketchup? Where’s the synergy with Three Olives Heinz Original Ketchup Flavored Vodka? 

We’ve got an economy to keep going here, folks!

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Artisanal Landlord Price Hike Sale

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The Exact Moment Big Cities Got Too Expensive for Millennials

It wasn't so long ago that cheap rentals in big cities weren't a fantasy

I call bullshit on this article. 

Oh sure, they might have researched it with “facts” and “data” but as someone who has been looking to move out of Chicago since 1994, lemme tell ya, this math is off. 

San Francisco has been unaffordable since about the time people’s parents started saying “Yahoo? What’s that?” 

In the 80s, (side note, those that like to make bio-musicals, I am offering this title to you for free, the title of the biggest grossing musical of all time) San Francisco was kind of the Detroit of the west. Rents were dirt cheap and crime was out of hand. There was (and continues to be) a massive homeless problem due to Ronald Reagan’s gutting of mental health services while he was governor of California and there wasn’t a lack of places to squat as a lot of commercially zoned buildings were empty. 

Then mayor Diane Feinstein had the idea to get these areas re-zoned for “mixed use” so that they could be places for people (mostly those kooky artists San Francisco was known for) to live and work. This allowed for what was called “light manufacturing” so people could make art, I guess. 

Well, by the early 90s, lots of these places started getting bought up by just-born companies like Yahoo, who were “manufacturing” software and under the wise stewardship of then-mayor Willie Brown, HUGE chunks of SOMA got bought up during the first dot com bubble. So now all those kooky artists had to move out which immediately made the rest of San Francisco rents shoot through the roof, not to mention that all these newly minted millionaires with stock options were buying up the other half of San Francisco. 

Suffice it to say, it certainly didn’t help matters that the once very strong rent control laws were now crumbling under the weight of Willie Brown’s desire for “transformation.” In the late 90s, Willie Brown was on Politically Incorrect and when Bill Maher asked him about the statistic that no one that made less than $50,000 could afford to live in San Francisco any longer, Willie Brown said something along the lines of “If that were true, where would we get our bus boys from?”

For a country that seems obsessed with idea of the “free market”, it sure seems that the rent getting too damn high in this case had an awful lot to do with the government controlling the housing market.