Technology Democratizes Entertainment As Royalty Watches Same Movies As Everyone
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A few centuries ago, the King of Spain could definitely afford better entertainment than you. Now, there is no better movie he can watch than the same movie everyone else is watching. The democratization of entertainment, thanks to technology.
I leave you with this image. In honour of the World Cup Final, I give you the King and Queen of Spain on a date night at the movies. She’s ordering the popcorn and he’s trying to look like a normal impatient dude in jeans. I love this photo.
This is a variation of: What kind of phone does a billionaire use? Basically the same one that everyone else uses. Or, Andy Warhol: “You can be watching TV and see Coca Cola, and you know that the President drinks Coca Cola, Liz Taylor drinks Coca Cola, and just think, you can drink Coca Cola, too. A coke is a coke and no amount of money can get you a better coke than the one the bum on the corner is drinking. All the cokes are the same and all the cokes are good. Liz Taylor knows it, the President knows it, the bum knows it, and you know it.”