While I'm harping on this, I should say that the textbook definition of "commodity fetishism" absolutely and totally applies to the aphorism "information wants to be free" It's the exact equivalent of saying shit like "wages want to be low"
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(Much like everyone forgets that von Clausewitz paired "War is diplomacy continued by other means" with "War is a fistfight continued by other means", i.e. war is fought for BOTH high-minded and petty reasons)
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But yeah, "information wants to be free" and its price trends down to zero if you just "let it" Just like wages want to be low, rent wants to rise and jobs want to have high turnover and be entry-level
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Information also wants to be expensive, it's fickle like that, the ways it expresses displeasure with being made free are just delayed You give information freedom by plastering it all over social media with no attribution/compensation, and it starts lying to you all the time
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Information wants to be free and it also wants to be worthless Those are the same market force People demanding *good* information and constructing a whole economy around gatekeeping, curation, etc is "information wanting to be expensive" That hasn't changed
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Good information is as costly as it ever was, the only shift is in who gets paid, and the people now getting paid the most are the assholes who have the least to do with it
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