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Doordash Decadence is Killing Me

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00:00 - INTRO

01:47 - Friction

02:48 - McDonalds Digital Kiosks

03:59 - Digital Decadence Defined

04:49 - Introducing Historical Decadence

06:32 - Doordash Part One

08:25 - How to Blitzscale

09:01 - Doordash Part Two

13:55 - Free Labor Era?

16:45 - Grounded

18:02 - Heian Era Japan

20:50 - Oswald Spengler

23:35 - Spengler's Seasons of Civilisation

25:15 - The Evil Economics of OF

31:40 - Simulation and Simulacra

32:34 - Reality/Image Meltdown

36:38 - Weird London Interlude

37:40 - Musk, Ani & Hyper-Reality

40:34 - The Simulation & You

43:07 - The Qing Dynasty, for some reason

46:03 - Digital Decadence & You

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