from Diary 2024-01-02 Sell easy digital opium to increase users
nishio In an era when the number of users became an investment target, it was important to increase the number of users by making it “available to anyone,” and microblogging was born. In order to increase the number of users, it was important to have “something that anyone can use,” which led to the creation of microblogging and the act of transmission that can be done with a single click. Microblogging] was born, and the act of transmitting information that can be done with a single click was created. - opium - Fast feedback addiction
nishio By the way, my thoughts while reading the chapter “data labor” in “Radical Markets”
nishio Paying daily tax on data to software services and accumulating nothing for yourself, just like in the days of feudalism when lords had a monopoly on serfs’ agricultural production. Yes, let’s call it technology feudalism, something like that.
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