The signifier "socialist" in jaron's quote is almost completely superfluous, and can easily be dropped without loosing anything from his main argument, so I wou

The signifier "socialist" in jaron's quote is almost completely superfluous, and can easily be dropped without loosing anything from his main argument, so I wouldn't fixate on that. The point is that if "information is free", then it severely restricts the kinds of business models startups and entrepreneurs need to survive. > When you sit down next to someone on a train and start a conversation I don't think Jaron is trying to say you need to pay someone to have a conversation on a train. That is more like a strawman. The content that you provide on a social media platform, which lives on a central, proprietary, for-profit company's server, is a bit different.