The web was one of the best opportunities we had to steer the ship in a positive direction. Instead of encouraging and fostering the creative and self-expressiv

The web was one of the best opportunities we had to steer the ship in a positive direction. Instead of encouraging and fostering the creative and self-expressive web, Google optimized for sucking the wealth out of us at the expense of everything else. And no, I don't buy the "SEO gamification ruined it, Google just responded" argument. They have billions of dollars and hordes of brilliant engineers. They could have done this differently. This was intentional because it made them fabulously wealthy.