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    <title>[1710.04562] Universal Scaling in Complex Substitutive Systems</title>
    <dc:date>2017-11-27T12:20:07+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>https://arxiv.org/abs/1710.04562</link>
    <dc:creator>Vaguery</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[Diffusion processes are central to human interactions. Despite extensive studies that span multiple disciplines, our knowledge is limited to spreading processes in non-substitutive systems. Yet, a considerable number of ideas, products and behaviors spread by substitution-to adopt a new one, agents must give up an existing one. Here, we find that, ranging from mobile handsets to automobiles to smart phone apps, early growth patterns in substitutive systems follow a power law with non-integer exponents, in sharp contrast to the exponential growth customary in spreading phenomena. Tracing 3.6 million individuals substituting for mobile handsets for over a decade, we uncover three generic ingredients governing substitutive processes, allowing us to develop a minimal substitution model, which not only predict analytically the observed growth patterns, but also collapse growth trajectories of constituents from rather diverse systems into a single universal curve. These results demonstrate that the dynamics of complex substitutive systems are governed by robust self-organizing principles that go beyond the particulars of individual systems, which implies that these results could guide the understanding and prediction of all spreading phenomena driven by substitutions, from electric cars to scientific paradigms, from renewable energy to new healthy habits.
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    <title>The Acquisitive Gaze – The New Inquiry</title>
    <dc:date>2015-05-05T12:25:59+00:00</dc:date>
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    <dc:creator>Vaguery</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[5. In “The Consuming Vision,” an essay about novelist Henry James, of all things, Jean-Christophe Agnew argues that the consumerist culture emerging in James’s time was a “world constructed by and for a consuming vision,” an “imagined world … in which imagination itself strives to gild, glaze, and ultimately commodify its objects.” This consuming vision becomes hegemonic in a world that comes to be seen as made entirely of commodities. “What modern consumer culture produces,” Agnew argues, “is not so much a way of being as a way of seeing — a way best characterized as visually acquisitive. In short, modern consumer culture holds up the cognitive appetite as the model and engine of its reproductive process.”

Agnew points out that the churn of markets assures that these sorts of characteristics are never stable in any given commodity or experience. Consumerism posits such meanings as free-floating, redeployable, highly contingent and not intrinsic to a good’s use value. (Soap might make me objectively clean, but will it make me feel clean, which is ultimately more important?)

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<dc:subject>consumerism social-media Pinterest cultural-dynamics branding rather-interesting self-definition</dc:subject>
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    <title>Guest Post: Are You Seeing What I'm Seeing? | ZeroHedge</title>
    <dc:date>2012-09-18T19:32:03+00:00</dc:date>
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    <dc:creator>Vaguery</dc:creator><description><![CDATA["A few powerful men have hijacked our economic, financial and political structure. They aren’t socialists or capitalists. They’re criminals. They created the culture of materialism, greed and debt, sustained by prodigious levels of media propaganda. Our culture has been led to believe that debt financed consumption over morality and justice is the path to success. In reality, we’ve condemned ourselves to a slow painful death spiral of debasement and despair."]]></description>
<dc:subject>financial-crisis war-in-our-time-alas consumerism sustainability this-ain't-disintermediation</dc:subject>
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    <title>Weighty Matters: Is sodium a dietary red herring for the effects of processed foods?</title>
    <dc:date>2011-06-05T16:34:11+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>http://www.weightymatters.ca/2011/05/is-sodium-dietary-red-herring-for.html</link>
    <dc:creator>Vaguery</dc:creator><description><![CDATA["I think there's at least one more possibility:

3. Sodium's isn't a causal agent of disease but instead given that processed foods are phenomenally high in sodium, is a useful biomarker for the degree of processed foods a person's consuming, and that it's the huge volumes of sugar and pulverized flour (that's more often than not packaged with gobs of sodium) that's actually causal for cardiovascular disease and death."]]></description>
<dc:subject>healthcare statistics medical-culture consumerism fast-food</dc:subject>
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    <title>dshort.com - U.S. Retail Sales</title>
    <dc:date>2011-05-14T13:42:57+00:00</dc:date>
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    <dc:creator>Vaguery</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[The charts below give us a rather different view of the U.S. retail economy and the long-term behavior of the consumer. The sales numbers are adjusted for population growth and inflation. For the population data I've used the Bureau of Economic Analysis mid-month series available from the St. Louis FRED with a linear extrapolation for the latest month. Inflation is based on the latest Consumer Price Index. April retail sales adjusted accordingly declined 0.2% from March.

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    <title>Dark Stores – BRIAN ULRICH : NOT IF BUT WHEN</title>
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    <dc:creator>Vaguery</dc:creator><description><![CDATA["..."
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    <title>How To: Find Out How Much Your Insurer Sucks</title>
    <dc:date>2009-09-06T13:01:01+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>http://consumerist.com/5346868/find-out-how-much-your-insurer-sucks</link>
    <dc:creator>Vaguery</dc:creator><description><![CDATA["So you suspect your health/auto/home insurer is run by the devil, but you're not sure whether the alternative you're considering is any better. Kiplinger Finance has posted a helpful article on how to find the complaint ratio of an insurer via the National Association of Insurance Commissioners' website. Update: here's how to file your own complaint."
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    <title>Compensatory Consumption vs. Budgetary Bliss</title>
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    <dc:creator>Vaguery</dc:creator><description><![CDATA["In recent research experiments, Derek Rucker and Adam Galinsky, found that people who felt powerless were willing to pay more money for luxury or status items than people who’d been conditioned to feel more powerful and in control."
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    <title>Doomed to Dilettantism &lt; Columns | PopMatters</title>
    <dc:date>2009-02-22T12:40:12+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>http://www.popmatters.com/pm/column/69526-doomed-to-dilettantism/</link>
    <dc:creator>Vaguery</dc:creator><description><![CDATA["Fortunately, we are not yet “perfected” consumers but if we are not vigilant, our attention span will continue to shrink, and those available conveniences that help us force more and more material through our tiny pinhole of focus will proliferate. (Just as road-building worsens traffic problems, media-management and organization tools tend to exacerbate our attention problems. Hence, I spend as much time editing metadata as I do concentrating on music I’m listening to.)"
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    <title>News N Economics: Consumers still adding leverage to income; when will this stop?</title>
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    <link>http://www.newsneconomics.com/2008/11/consumers-still-adding-leverage-to.html</link>
    <dc:creator>Vaguery</dc:creator><description><![CDATA["I recently had a client apply for a credit card. She is a homemaker, with no personal income. The house she lives in is in her husband’s name. She would have asked for a $3,000 credit line, just to pay miscellaneous expenses and to establish some credit on her own. So the computer is told that her household income is $150,000; her mortgage/rent payment is zero. The fact is that her husband’s mortgage payment is $7,000 a month (which he got with a no income verification loan). She had a good credit score, but limited credit since she has only lived in this country for the last three years. The system gave her an approval for a $26,000 line of credit!"
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    <title>/Ground: Slow Food Nation: The Detroit Black Community Food Security Network</title>
    <dc:date>2008-08-31T14:11:56+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>http://www.stoweboyd.com/ground/2008/08/slow-food-nat-2.html</link>
    <dc:creator>Vaguery</dc:creator><description><![CDATA["According to Malik, Detroit is one of the leaders in community gardening.  The networks supports church gardens, backyard gardens, container gardens and school gardens. Malik placed special importance on school gardens as a means to educate children, not just see them as consumers. He stated that kids who cultivate vegetables want to eat them, and that these gardeners encourage their parents to start backyard gardens at home."
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    <title>Weblogsky: &quot;Networking is something we do, and not a service we have to buy&quot;</title>
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    <dc:creator>Vaguery</dc:creator><description><![CDATA["We must embrace and encourage abundance and not let ourselves be captive of an artificial marketplace that is unable to sustain itself in the face of any competition."
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    <title>naked capitalism: Some Banks Can't Foreclose, Unable to Find Loan Documents</title>
    <dc:date>2008-02-24T22:41:04+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>http://www.nakedcapitalism.com/2008/02/some-banks-cant-foreclose-unable-to.html</link>
    <dc:creator>Vaguery</dc:creator><description><![CDATA["Judges spend all day enforcing the code of law. They get offended when parties to a suit are cavalier about the law or rules of procedure."
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