Given that one can track the roots of present "movement conservative" partisan media back into the 80s (maybe even as far as Ailes' shortly-after-Nixon claim th

Given that one can track the roots of present "movement conservative" partisan media back into the 80s (maybe even as far as Ailes' shortly-after-Nixon claim that he could have avoided impeachment with supportive media), and even that is hardly the first partisan media phenomenon in the history of US or even Western Culture... Ravikant's statement doesn't make sense as an analysis, unless there's a case that commodification we're talking about not only pre-dates the internet it's actually older than electric cities. (Ravikant's statement does make sense as a certain kind of evocation common to business/tech figures.)