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Your comment could have a few names changed and apply equally well to the Lycos and Yahoo web portals of the early Internet. The Tech elite have the same chanc
by josh2600 13y ago
Your comment could have a few names changed and apply equally well to the Lycos and Yahoo web portals of the early Internet.
The Tech elite have the same chance as the rest of us. We're all humans, vulnerable to loneliness, envy and every other mortal sin. The pain of switching is not technical, but social and political.
It is a deeply political and social decision to disconnect from our social fabric and not one that even the most ostracized members of society make in haste. I just think you're ignoring the real costs in favor of the monetary concerns.
- casca 13y agoVery much agreed. My point is more that the cost to prepare to switch is very low. We have a high degree of certainty that email will be used for the foreseeable future so why not make the addressing movable? How can we make the preparation for flexibility become a pure technical problem and not a social one?
- josh2600 13y ago"He who fights monsters should see to it that he himself does not become a monster. And if you gaze for long into an abyss, the abyss gazes also into you." — Friedrich Nietzsche, Beyond Good and Evil