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The Grey Swan's avatar

I think the “curator” has so much power now because most people are just consumers. To know what you like - to have taste - has become special in itself.

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Anna's avatar

The term ‘curator economy’ is compelling, but is it truly an economy yet? What’s the actual system of value? What holds it stable? What undermines it?

A comparison with luxury is instructive: when signals like discretion, rarity, and judgment are made to serve metrics—output volume, affiliate clicks, follower growth—the internal logic starts to break.

If this is to function as an economy, curation can’t just look like scarcity. It has to confront the tension between meaningful selection and monetized repetition.

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