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An interesting take I've seen is that (if we take America as a prime example,) the 20th Century was divided into two parts representing phases of capitalism, the earlier part being a high point for 'producer' capitalism, industrial growth and material reform (like the New Deal) and that the later part of the Century was the final emergence of 'consumer' capitalism with the transition to a service economy, industrial outsourcing, and cultural reform (like the 'Swinging' Sixties or the Counterculture).

One very interesting strain of thought I've encountered as part of this perspective is the idea that the emergence of modern youth culture, counterculture, and all the various subcultures, rather than being an act of rebellion was merely an act of market segmentation. Market segmentation is a key idea here which basically just means that different people have different wants and thus the things they are sold and the style of marketing towards them must vary. PepsiCo is noted to have revolutionized this concept with their idea of the 'Pepsi Generation':

'The epic battle of Coca-Cola and Pepsi is the best-known illustration of the change in which uniformity quite literally gave way to diversity. Over the first half of the 20th century, Coke built an unrivaled dominance of the once-localized soft-drink market-
place: it offered a single product that was supposed to be consumable by people in every walk of life: rich and poor, old and young, men and women and in every part of the country. It was the "brand beyond competition," with a single, zealously guarded formula and a single container size that was supposed to be adequate for everyone. Pepsi's rise during the 1960s, more than any other single event, signaled the arrival of the segmented market. By appealing to youthfulness and the young as a philosophy and a people apart from the values associated with Coca-Cola, Pepsi transformed itself quickly into a competitor to be reckoned with. The
ensuing "Cola Wars" have had much less to do with the rival companies' actual products than with the "psychic benefit" promised by each, with the war of symbolism in which both have invested so much.'

The idea then is that the underlying concept of market segmentation behind the notion of the 'Pepsi Generation' spread to other groups and towards other goals but was ultimately not a rebellion against consumer capitalism but an extension and unconscious application of its logic, because consumer capitalism naturally encourages cultural diversity in order that more people are appealed to and more products are sold:

"At its most advanced stages, according to business writers, this new
species of marketing is concerned with nothing other than the construction of consumer subjectivity, as manufacturers and advertisers attempt to call group identities into existence where before there had been nothing but inchoate feelings and common responses to pollsters' questions.

About this rather startling point Ted low is completely candid. "Segmentation based not on logistics or on some genuine product characteristics
but on demographic and psychographic groupings carved out of the general population is an invention of late twentieth-century American marketing," he writes.

The old fragmentation was based on realities [primarily geographic], but this new segmentation springs wholly from the imagination of the marketer. Pepsi and other such companies have been more interested in the term segment as a verb than as a noun. They have segmented markets, rather than merely responded to a market segment that already existed. There was no such thing as the Pepsi Generation until Pepsi created it."

It is significant that the market element utilized in (or invented by)
Pepsi's ur-segmentation was youth. Before the 1960s, young people had
always been an established part of marketing and a staple image in advertising art, largely because of their still unformed tastes and their position as trend leaders. This was especially true in the 1920s. But during the 1960s, this standard approach changed. No longer was youth merely a "natural" demographic group to which appeals could be pitched:suddenly youth became a consuming position to which all could aspire.

"Pepsi not only recognized the existence of a demographic segment," observed marketing historians Stanley Hollander and Richard Germain,
"but also in essence manufactured a segment of those who wanted to feel
youthful." The conceptual position of youthfulness became as great an

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I had a dream last night that I was using heyuri last night. In this dream, there existed a special feature. You could invite another user to participate. There were two panes. On the top, there was a live chat to communicate with the other person, and below, was the shared window. This is where the activity took place. In my dream, it was programming; but I suppose it could be anything else with text, or even drawing.

It could be competitive or cooperative. I suppose in the competitive mode it might be a good idea to have two separate windows for each user and not one that both can edit. I believe also in my dream that others could view it and post to the chat but not edit the shared window.

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