Sublime

This explains the idea of promoting a Greater Safety Net for networked individuals rather than for corporations—a hedge designed to cover us against all critical risks and empower us in our many interactions with other economic agents, all without the intermediation of the proxies (large corporations, the state) on which the Great Safety Net 1.0 ha

The goal is to lock every single person into one platform—to own them from sunup to sundown, to know everything about them and monetize their every thought.

Netflix pioneered the filtering of culture through recommendation engines.

For a time, the impact of technology was contained within a narrow segment of the economy. The only ones to be unnerved were executives in the advertising and media industries. The Napster trial was the first showdown between a fast-growing startup and incumbents dominating an old industry. Then Google began its rise from being a better search engi

Second Machine Age, written by the MIT economists Erik Brynjolfsson and Andrew McAfee.

As Austin Robey and Severin Matusek put it in their report,

“After the Creator Economy”: “We want work to be financially valued without compromising our integrity. We want to make meaningful work that we're proud of, not please an algorithm. We want to share work in ways that feel right to us, not compete for attention on a feed. We want to feel see