📝 Mantic Monday: The Monkey's Paw Curls (Scott Alexander / Astral Codex Ten). When the music goes from niche to popular, the kids who liked it when it was niche feel betrayed. Compare with plastics (rare + high status => ubiquitous and dead common) and GPS (rare + military defense => driving from home to work). When prediction markets were weird and niche, they were high status. Now they're mostly sports gambling, so declasse.