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I guess he never anticipated that "the best minds of [our] generation are thinking about how to make people click ads."[1] [1] http://www.smh.com.au/business/w
by leeny 13y ago
I guess he never anticipated that "the best minds of [our] generation are thinking about how to make people click ads."[1]
[1] http://www.smh.com.au/business/world-business/why-this-tech-bubble-is-different-20110415-1dhbm.html#ixzz2dDwQHDql http://www.smh.com.au/business/world-business/why-this-tech-...
- contingencies 13y agoOr extracting wealth from the digitally accelerated, cataclysmic, climactic failure of the economic system of yore. Or the legal systems, fairly similarly. Or to global surveillance systems dangling carrots for citizens but storing all of their data: location, human communications, etc. forever.
- edem 13y agoYour post reminds me of this image: http://joking.of-cour.se/files/2009/02/2393382.jpg http://joking.of-cour.se/files/2009/02/2393382.jpg
- dredmorbius 13y agoCatabolic Collapse and Rent Seeking are largely the same thing: http://www.ecoshock.org/transcripts/greer_on_collapse.pdf http://www.ecoshock.org/transcripts/greer_on_collapse.pdf Ads, FIRE industries, intellectual property feudalism, and microcode: it's where the fiscal hoarding opportunities are. They're creating little if any real wealth.