Internet-enabled easy acquisition destroyed cultural value and elevated money as status symbol.

Evidence

In my previous book Status and Culture, I argued that the easy acquisition of information and goods on the internet destroyed an important source of cultural value and elevated money to the supreme status symbol. Between this structural shift and a full rationalization of the culture industry, the system is certainly stacked against the creation of pure art. — W. David Marx, Blank Space, 848

Categorization

• XREF: This is the status dynamics mechanism central to the reader’s stated task — the causal chain behind omnivore monoculture connects directly to Marx’s own Status and Culture. — connects to: New technology hardens souls and destroys values even as it increases bounty.