There's an economic [[Pattern]] that occurs in any industry of a certain level of maturity wherein the spectrum of options available to consumers starts to look like an inverse bell curve when plotted as a histogram based on price. ![[Pasted image 20240720093035.png]] The moderately expensive, moderately high quality options aren't as cheap as the bountiful "good enough" quality options that are mass-produced and able to be sold with tight margins - and they also aren't as high quality as those specialty options which are each hand-crafted by artisans and sold a with high margins. # Mr. Beast-ification In the podcast, CGP Grey utilized this idea from macroeconomics to explain a trend he was seeing in YouTube. Eye-on-video time is concentrating on shorts and incredibly long incredibly difficult-to-produce videos. He described it as "_Mr. Beast-ification_", where the well known & high-effort YouTuber "Mr Beast" represents the upper end of the spectrum. **** # More ## Source - the Cortext Podcast ## Related - [[Systems Thinking]]