Jacob Ivy

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[Jacob Ivy @jacobivy22]

"Never forget what you are, the rest of the world will not. Wear it like armor and it can never be used to hurt you."

[Aakash Gupta @aakashgupta]

Japan's tax agency got so worried about young people not drinking that in 2022 it ran a national contest asking 20-somethings to invent ideas to make alcohol cool again.

Tokyo's clubs read the same data and went the other direction. They put carpet on the dance floor and started selling silence.

The event is called Jucy Book Rave, held at an underground club in Shimokitazawa. You pay a cover, sit or lie down on the floor, and read while a DJ plays ambient sets. The venue sells copies of one recommended novel so strangers end up reading the same story in the same room. In the early afternoon the volume creeps up and the reading room turns back into a dance floor.

The economics explain why a club would try this. The average Japanese adult drank about 100 liters of alcohol a year in 1995. By 2020 it was down to 75, and a health ministry survey found 29% of people in their twenties drink nothing at all. Alcohol went from 5% of Japan's tax revenue in 1980 to under 2%. A business built on bar sales is watching its core customer disappear, so this one found customers who pay to be sober, in daylight, on a floor that would otherwise sit empty until night.

And Japan has run this exact play before. In the late 1920s, jazz kissa opened across the country. Cafes where you paid to sit in silence and listen to imported jazz records too expensive for any individual to own. At the peak there were around 600 of them. Home stereos killed the model in the 70s because access to the music stopped being scarce.

A century later the scarcity flipped. Anyone can read anywhere for free. A room full of strangers who all agreed to be quiet with you is the rare thing now. The kissa sold the records. The book rave sells the silence.

[Jacob Ivy @jacobivy22]

A wise man gets more from his enemies, than a fool does from his friends

[Jacob Ivy @jacobivy22]

@Not_Really_God I wouldn't say historically important, its not some major crowning achievement that will be remembered through the centuries like the odyssey. Just a successful story that grabbed the attention of millions.

[Jacob Ivy @jacobivy22]

@Not_Really_God Well the book series ended the plague of aliteracy in 90's for teens so...

[Harrison Schenck @FractionalList]

“It says here in this history book that luckily, the good guys have won every single time. What are the odds?”

- Norm MacDonald

[Jacob Ivy @jacobivy22]

Nostalgia its delicate, but potent

[Jacob Ivy @jacobivy22]

Love is just a complex pathway of biochemical interactions. We give it meaning by choice.

[Jacob Ivy @jacobivy22]

If your desires are not great, a little will seem much to you: for small appetite makes poverty equivalent to wealth.

[Barstool Sports @barstoolsports]

Rest in Peace Bob Saget

[tatyana ;) @tatbaee]

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[Jacob Ivy @jacobivy22]

As long as i have breath in my body, my fate is my own.

[Jacob Ivy @jacobivy22]

Victory is reserved for those who are willing to pay its price

[Jacob Ivy @jacobivy22]

@OKSTProbs @ShaiDay23 I'd say this statement is dated 😂😂😂

[Jacob Ivy @jacobivy22]

On a long enough timeline, the survival rate for everyone drops to zero.

[Jacob Ivy @jacobivy22]

Worrying is like a rocking chair. It gives you something to do, but it doesn't get you anywhere.

[Jacob Ivy @jacobivy22]

I dont want to be a product of my environment. I want my environment to be a product of me.

[Jacob Ivy @jacobivy22]

Its better to be a warrior in a garden than a gardener in a war.

[Jacob Ivy @jacobivy22]

When nothing is certain anything is possible