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It's absurd how many examples of the collective action problem are treated this way every day, on HN or in media more broadly.
by GavinMcG 8y ago
It's absurd how many examples of the collective action problem are treated this way every day, on HN or in media more broadly.
- marcus_holmes 8y agothe article itself does a pretty good job of listing all the other cases where a previously respected and well paid profession has been affected by market forces. Of course, it ascribes malicious intent for all of them, too. I think the paragraph about journalism was probably the most pertinent. No-one decided to relabel journalism as "content" to be produced by designated "content providers". Pre-internet only journalists had a way of publishing their opinions. Post-internet everyone does. The simple law of supply and demand means that opinions are less valuable now.