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Note that it also yields 10 kg of feed, which sounds more appealing to me than locusts.

Internet hippies are like locust, except they want their data private.

Also, his point is not a survival means as the grasshopper/locust metaphor would indicate.

Whenever they offer anything less than the best deal, locust swarm will retreat, for example to Groupon and Starbucks.

One generally can't just read a word locust and think "harmless", "cute", "needed" and such as a first thought - and that's exactly what this rhetoric aims for.

Unless these locust nuggets turn out to be the best tasting thing ever, I think I'll have my feed with a side of chicken, and leave the locusts to the more adventurous.

If it was Kafka, at some point Google would transform into a giant locust, be accused of unknown crime, and sentenced to a prison colony in America.

It is no accident that the worst-hit victims of the locust plagues of the 19th century were small farmers living the Jeffersonian dream handed to them by the Homestead Act of 1862.

I can see how music scene can be an example of the locust economy:There is more and more bands, each of those have smaller and smaller listener base to the point that most listeners are musicians.

The result is that even under normal business conditions, without swarming locust consumers, this is a loss-making business with an extinction rate of around 90% at the 5 year point in the US.

Maybe I'm missing it in the bulk of the article somewhere, but I thought this claim could have used a little more support:In a locust economy, the Jeffersonian middle class is a terrible place to be.

As they march across barren deserts, locusts carefully keep track of each other so they can remain within striking distance to consume one another a cruel, but very efficient, survival strategy.

This is how to make money in a locust economy, market yourself as a locust feeding frenzy location, and financially manage yourself to handle a larger inventory and smaller cashflow than a "normal" store.