David Perell on the Microwave economy

I hope to write a longform essay myself about this topic, but this was fascinating on multiple levels:

https://twitter.com/david_perell/status/1366585150390349824

Please read the entire thread, and the threads in almost all of the tweets that make up the first thread (if you see what I mean). Anything that can tie together a microwave dinner, urbanization, and Robert Pirsig is, as they say, self-recommending.