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I don't know anything about New Jersey other than Batman and Tony Soprano are both from there.

BritMonkey

Whats your general thoughts on New Jersey and its political scene.

Ethan Josephson

Very interesting hypothesis, thank you for sharing; I am discussing similar ideas in an upcoming video. Unfortunately your link seems to be broken/the paper was retracted, but best of luck trying to get it confirmed by the scientific community.

BritMonkey

Your Pleasure Cube vid cracked something wide open in my mind. It helped me shape an entire macroeconomic theory called the Dopamine Collapse Hypothesis (DCH) — a full-scale breakdown of how tech-optimized pleasure loops are breaking human motivation, labor, birth rates, and ambition itself. DCH shows how this isn’t just personal burnout or cultural malaise — it’s neuroeconomic gridlock at scale. Once the system learns to feed stimulation without effort, the brain stops seeking purpose, and the economy enters a slow-motion death spiral. Reform becomes impossible, because the very drive to fix things collapses with the system. What’s left isn’t chaos — it’s comfort-driven extinction. And that’s the real cube. Recently got the attention of a Stanford professor. I’d be psyched if you gave it a look. It’s heavy, but I think you’ll see the thread you helped spark: https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=5168672 Totally up to you, but if you ever felt like riffing on this in a vid, I think your audience would feel seen. This isn’t just a collapse theory — it’s what happens when pleasure turns into a trap, and the system keeps feeding it. Feels like the next chapter after the Pleasure Cube. Would be wild to see you explore it in your own lens.

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