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The margins are always where the interesting stuff happens. The interesting people gather there. The interesting ideas are shared. The new fashions. Think of Haight-Ashbury, Carnaby Street, Notting Hill, Bloomsbury, Mercer New York....

Sure, Capitalism always devours it, but by then the party has moved on somewhere new.

Marginals know how to find each other. By the books we read. By the fact that we're the only ones not staring at phones in public. Spotting another vaguely attractive person with a dumb phone or interesting book is good enough reason to strike up a conversation.

Oh, and in case you we're feeling all "mainstream"... Hacker News? WaaaaaaaaaaaaY out marginal! We're practically on another planet here ;)



Unlike you, the article is using "marginal" in the economic sense.


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