Yeah, actually, I do Baumol's cost "disease" just means we're not all in the position of sweatshop laborers That we deserve and can demand to get paid more the bare minimum - or nothing at all - just for turning in mediocre work
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One big thing I'm fascinated by is apparently Tim Berners-Lee coming to think the Web itself was designed badly, that the assumptions behind its design made it way too easy to strip context and attribution (by default the owner of an asset has no control over being linked to)
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The Internet as it's designed currently makes the concept of "invisible microtransactions" almost impossible And that's a compelling image of an alternative Internet that seems like a pipe dream today but could possibly have worked
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Instead of big visible subscription paywalls everywhere, an invisible process by which you pay something like $10-20 a month for being online and the money gets split between the owners of whatever content you looked at No advertisers need to get involved
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"But Arthur, people would absolutely game such a system, they would mirror content or archive it or spoof their own IP to avoid giving people money for clicks and steal clicks from others" Yeah I know That's already the world we live in now, only worse, because ads are involved
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And advertising-based models are, like, the worst - combining all the downsides of all the other models And the specific way in which advertisers decide want to get paid is what incentivizes the consolidation of giant corporate content hosts who spy on everybody
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