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#1 and #2 amount to the same thing, since the success metric for #1, by necessity, has to be the extent to which it produces the political environment favored b
by quotemstr 8y ago
#1 and #2 amount to the same thing, since the success metric for #1, by necessity, has to be the extent to which it produces the political environment favored by its creators. Fairness is giving weigh according to legitimacy, and we as humans always perceive our own side as being more legitimate.
> If they just chose more responsible business models, this wouldn't be happening.
No effort on social change that requires that corporations voluntary forego profit (or that requires that individuals forego status) will ever work, nor should it. Everyone talks about what behavior should be, but nobody wants to talk about the sort of incentive structure that would produce that behavior.
- m52go 8y agoWe're in the first round of digital media becoming a pervasive part of everyone's lives. People are just now realizing how harmful these services are & just how extensive their powers are. At the same time, there are a bunch of new services popping up that offer to spread power more equally with structures that are more distributed by design. I think it will take time (like, maybe a decade or two)...but today's dominant services will die out through a combination of terrible events and user-hostile moves, and new services will emerge that build on the lessons learned. It might seem unthinkable right now, but I think the right dynamics are in place to make it happen in the near-future.