“I’ll throw you in a vine and make you famous and shit. This, and other exchanges about favor-based social economies, exemplify how much social capital has replaced liquid assets for millennials. There isn’t much cash between us, but maybe we’ll get friendly with the right celebrity online who’ll throw us in a vine and then another brand might pay us for their next one.”
More from Ayesha Siddiqi
“The character, Cole, declares, we can invent an app, start a blog, sell things…”
“If meaningful work is now extracting the market value of your lifestyle brand, then life…”
“Life under contemporary capitalism demands an aggressive alienation from each other and…”