{"id":328,"date":"2025-04-29T05:50:17","date_gmt":"2025-04-29T05:50:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blog.adlington.fr\/index.php\/2025\/04\/29\/in-defense-of-an-online-life-marginal-revolution\/"},"modified":"2025-04-29T05:50:17","modified_gmt":"2025-04-29T05:50:17","slug":"in-defense-of-an-online-life-marginal-revolution","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.adlington.fr\/index.php\/2025\/04\/29\/in-defense-of-an-online-life-marginal-revolution\/","title":{"rendered":"In defense of an online life &#8211; Marginal REVOLUTION"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p>I recognize that many of these communications are online, and thus they are \u201cthinner\u201d than many more local, face-to-face relationships. Yet I do end up meeting most of these people, and with great pleasure. That, in turn, enhances the quality of the online communications. And frankly, if forced to choose, I would rather have thinner relationships with \u201cthe perfect people for me\u201d than regular bear hugs and beer guzzlings with \u201cpeople who are in the 87th percentile for me.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The internet, in other words, has invented a new means of human connection, characterized by \u201cthe perfect people for me.\u201d For me, it\u2019s people who are into analytical thinking and tech and AI and music and economics, and much more. For others? It can be&nbsp;Survivor&nbsp;obsessives or vegans or knitters or&nbsp;Survivor&nbsp;obsessives who are vegan and love to knit. The point is that there is a niche for all 8 billion of us. And now we know where to find each other.<br \/>\n\u2014 Read on <a href=\"https:\/\/marginalrevolution.com\/marginalrevolution\/2025\/04\/in-defense-of-an-online-life.html\">marginalrevolution.com\/marginalrevolution\/2025\/04\/in-defense-of-an-online-life.html<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I recognize that many of these communications are online, and thus they are \u201cthinner\u201d than many more local, face-to-face relationships. Yet I do end up meeting most of these people, and with great pleasure. That, in turn, enhances the quality of the online communications. And frankly, if forced to choose, I would rather have thinner [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-328","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blog"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.adlington.fr\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/328","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.adlington.fr\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.adlington.fr\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.adlington.fr\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.adlington.fr\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=328"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blog.adlington.fr\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/328\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.adlington.fr\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=328"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.adlington.fr\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=328"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.adlington.fr\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=328"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}