The Law of Conservation of Fame
Published: 2010-09-02
Liense: CC-BY-SA-3.0
Tags: art economics humans weird
Transcript
mimi: "Everyone will be famous for 15 minutes."
eunice: Warhol said that in 1968.
eunice: Since then, population has doubled from 3.5 billion to 7 billion.
mimi: Now you only get to be famous for 7.5 minutes.
eunice: Zero-sum fame.