I don’t have a quippy name for it, but the fact that people initially used the internet primarily for gathering around mutual interests and gifting their labor to their communities for free. That still exists, but they added all this social and financial infrastructure to encourage people to commodify this labor, too. I know that Marx talked about a lot of this so it’s not new. But it still sucks to see how all-consuming capitalism is in real-time.
Yeah there’s plenty of old school marxist and economic language for it. It’s nothing super new. Maybe there’s something unique about how the bottleneck to scale it does seem to be attention rather than physical space.
Also using public resources for private gain whether literal publicly funded infrastructure or pooled collective knowledge that aids in profit making for a select few.
I don’t have a quippy name for it, but the fact that people initially used the internet primarily for gathering around mutual interests and gifting their labor to their communities for free. That still exists, but they added all this social and financial infrastructure to encourage people to commodify this labor, too. I know that Marx talked about a lot of this so it’s not new. But it still sucks to see how all-consuming capitalism is in real-time.
enclosure of the commons? most tech money was made around patenting stuff that was previously freely available
Yeah there’s plenty of old school marxist and economic language for it. It’s nothing super new. Maybe there’s something unique about how the bottleneck to scale it does seem to be attention rather than physical space.
Also using public resources for private gain whether literal publicly funded infrastructure or pooled collective knowledge that aids in profit making for a select few.
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