Should Photos Have a Limit? 🤳
Summary
A straphanger pitches a radical policy: every person gets exactly 36 photos per year. That's it. No exceptions for vacations, birthdays, or even professional photographers. The logic? We've already taken all the photos that will ever exist, and every new shot is just a duplicate nobody needs. Plus, taking photos in public is inherently selfish, distracting from other people's experiences. Kareem pushes back on the photographer angle, but the rider doubles down. Those 36 photos are going to count, let me tell you. It's an absurdist take that somehow makes you think twice about how casually we snap pictures of everything.
Full Transcript
My take is that every human being in this country is allotted only 36 photos a year. 100% disagree. When you take a photo in public, you're distracting from someone else's human experience. It's a selfish thing. So every person gets 36 photos a year, correct? Including on phones. Especially on phones. We've taken all the photos that will ever exist. We don't—everything that we need. Everything that we take from this point on is a duplicate. We don't need it.
What about—what if you're a photographer? Well, that's the thing. This is a good—it will put photographers back in business. Do they get more than 36? No. But those 36 are going to count. Let me tell you.
So what's your take?