What is "fighting over the right to gamble on the stock market" like?
:amber-snacking:
Reminder of the full take (which I found good, then bad, then very good, then very very bad), that became even funnier over the past few days (when replacing "reddit" by the "stock market" or "robinhood", but also when observing the explosion of WSB's "political significance"):
I don’t think anything about the Internet is fair. Why would it be? It’s capitalist media. It’s naive to expect otherwise. I literally don’t care about reddit, nor do I believe that the internet can be relied upon as any medium for left movement-building. It’s not a democratically controlled industry; it’s barely subject to law. You might as well be talking about Exxon mobile not being “fair.”
Fuck reddit, this entire thing is a frivolous spectacle. None of it rises to the level of political significance and the platform itself isn’t worth fighting for. It’s politically and socially corrosive and if it’s your chosen political battlefield then you’re doomed to lose at a game that doesn’t even matter.
Fighting over the right to be heard on Reddit is like fighting over the right to live in a dumpster.