> Startup culture refers to this loss of curation as “democratization” which is a cynical gesture that really just means replacing things like person connection

> Startup culture refers to this loss of curation as “democratization” which is a cynical gesture that really just means replacing things like person connections with a ‘highest spender’ promotion industry that is even more dishonest than the curation model. Neither model is democratic in any sense. For a second there I thought you were talking about the crypto and NFT space. Still accurate.