* these days we shorten this phrase to "enshittification"
Lagniappe: https://tomlehrersongs.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/12/the-bo...
I have merely tabbed item?id=41519713 from HN tail, for v vs h integration is also at the backend of my mind (the slop-schlep — measured in microyarvins? — estimate for that doesnt look good?)
*excerpt here, dont mind the slapdashed heading? https://panarchy.org/veblen/absentee.html
>Indeed, it has taken something like a hundred years for the formulas of the economists to adapt themselves to the new run of facts in business and industry which set in in the days of Adam Smith.
See esp. the penultimate (Leninist?) paragraph “…grounded in traditional common sense…” (TCS is related to conscientiousness, but very much anitithetical to Castalia) which i cant paste here due to my buggy OS
It probably helps having freedom from the special clause Veblen mentions: "absentee ownership is safe-guarded by a special clause of the American constitution".
EDIT: v-integration is (don't tell the theoretical CS people; it'd ruin their fun) a practical application of the https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maximum_subarray_problem (Kadane's is, incidentally, but a few characters of APL)
Riffing on great filters: anytime I see outcomes where tiny is highly likely but the few which are not tiny are huge, I tend to suspect stochastic mechanism. (Körner has a nice chapter somewhere, IIRC "Why are we not all called Smith?")
Just about the only useful thing I think I've learned from Victor Davis Hanson* is that you don't want to buy your farm machinery retail, you want to get it at auction, from the poor schlub who just failed in the field.
* shorter VDH: academia is bad because they want you to use the bathrooms when you piss
(the century-long saga of the ERA in the Old Country makes me suspect it may be on the wrong side of DDJ 76; on the other hand, Cherryh's patterning of democracy in Union https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alliance–Union_universe#Societ... after the some-are-more-equal-than-others Roman model instead of "one person one vote" leads one to suspect constitutional sclerosis may well have been intentional)