Supply and demand are basic precepts of modern economics, a theory tied to value with respect to availability in the context of scarcity and abundance. 

I do often think it is a useful exercise to turn well-understood theories on their heads and see if they are applicable to other systems.

Say, what does abundance do to our perception of the value of art as a cultural output: such as when everyone and everything can create low-friction passable AI slop and it exists in such quantity that there are few if any gaps in our daily lives not filled with some kind of creative output, what happens to how we think of those creative artifacts? Such things were once the sole output of human minds, but increasingly algorithms make the images we see, videos we enjoy, music we dance to, story that shapes our world, recipes for the food we eat, and countless other artistic experiences.

We are overloaded. We are flooded. We are catered to with curated personal collections of increasingly worthless art generated to drive the economics of our attention. There is nigh infinite product crammed into a limited life, and filtering the value from it has become the real challenge of being a human in this muddle.

I’ll be exploring this more under the topic Infinity & Abundance as I continue writing on this blog. Stay tuned.