> With a name like Nominative determinism is for fictional worlds. > I guess my point is, if there was every anything that has done more to liberate the avera

> With a name like Nominative determinism is for fictional worlds. > I guess my point is, if there was every anything that has done more to liberate the average human being, it is the internet. I just don't buy the argument that any of this would have happened without free market competition, or that the state of the internet not is somehow worse than it would be otherwise. The Eternal September is a real phenomenon. That's a particular "worse" aspect, even if the overall effect of that sharing of the wealth is massively positive.