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What a bunch of populist clap trap. The people owned the web, but tech giants stole it? Please. Tech giants gave people what they wanted. Google, Facebook, Amaz
by judah 9y ago
What a bunch of populist clap trap. The people owned the web, but tech giants stole it? Please. Tech giants gave people what they wanted. Google, Facebook, Amazon: they gave people what they wanted and are compensated richly for that.
- darawk 9y agoCouldn't agree more. Not to mention the fact that you're still perfectly able to do all the things that you've always been able to do. Anyone can still put up a website whenever they want. Now they just feel entitled to all the views and ad revenue that the big platforms will drive to them.
- gregknicholson 9y agoYou know how in the 1980s everything was corporate suits and shiny expensive PDAs and that was fashionable, and then in the 1990s grunge happened? Well, maybe the 2020s will look like Neocities.
- bfuller 9y agoseems like we are in the age of bearded grunge kids wearing flannel holding expensive "PDA" equivalents
- cma 9y agoThey disproportionately capture people's network effect value and sell it back to them.
- loggedinmyphone 9y agoA better headline might be, the thing everyone thought they wanted is now an obviously terrible idea.
- SlowRobotAhead 9y ago>the thing everyone thought they wanted I’m a really firm believer in this. The Henry Ford quote is the most succinct way to describe it I’ve ever seen, but the topic of “miswanting” is dear to me.