I blogged about what connects today’s Internet to historical land enclosures—once open and communal, now fenced off by corporate interests.There's something about a karaoke API, RSS feeds, and how what was once shared is now siloed.
I blogged about what connects today’s Internet to historical land enclosures—once open and communal, now fenced off by corporate interests.There's something about a karaoke API, RSS feeds, and how what was once shared is now siloed.
@johl After reading Piketty's Capital, I've been wondering how the structure of capital earnings and wealth accumulation may be changing permanently. Nowadays the big landlords are those who raise rents on their internet-based enclosures, but why? Is it just because internet latifundia are easier to expand to absurdly wide global reaches? The rental value must depend on how valuable for actual productive activities the enclosure is. When people stop shopping downtown the values drop. And online?
«“One of the things that must be going on in the economy,” Weisenthal said to Cembalest, “is everybody's margin becoming Facebook's profits, or everybody's margins eventually becoming Alphabets profits.” [...] Cembalest pretty much said that big tech is gradually taking over everything in the economy, that these large firms own key “real estate” everyone must use. »
https://www.thebignewsletter.com/p/why-is-google-still-in-one-piece
«“One of the things that must be going on in the economy,” Weisenthal said to Cembalest, “is everybody's margin becoming Facebook's profits, or everybody's margins eventually becoming Alphabets profits.” [...] Cembalest pretty much said that big tech is gradually taking over everything in the economy, that these large firms own key “real estate” everyone must use. »
https://www.thebignewsletter.com/p/why-is-google-still-in-one-piece
