I don't want to be discouraging, but something strikes me as weird about that. It feels like a clinging-to of a thing that is fundamentally about flux and change. Our digital home is different every day, to attempt to protect "it" with fences strikes me as a sort of taxidermy
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Your take is actually the point of my post... at home in the flux
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Well, I'm very happy for you two. Plutocratic retreat is always an option for those who can afford it.
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I get the feeling that your overall philosophy works perfectly given a sufficient level of enlightenment. I actually agree, I'm just targeting one level of enlightenment below yours (with an eye toward my family stuck in southern Missouri, actually enmeshed "real fake news").
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I would suppose your eye is actually turned toward people even-worse-off than my Opioid-addicted family (read: this is a joke), but that would be supposing a thing about you I don't actually know (because I don't actually know you)
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I mean what's plutocratic about making a home on the internet. Blogs or other presences are cheap to build. Online community stuff mainly subs for tv or sports. Anyone can do it. I don't get why wealth is a variable here.
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Having a "highly curated social graph", dense enough to need only small # of people to provide you situational awareness of important topics, is definitely a strong modern form of wealth. If Twitter shuts down, you could contact ~70 people through vgr@ribbonfarm.com or whatever.
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You actually built this graph w/ decade+ of hard work, but it is wealth nonetheless, one that smart people would probably pay *huge* $$$ for.
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See this thread and subthread exchange with Karim Lakhani and Rem Koning. Network wealth is not trivial but it IS overrated.
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Network capital is vastly overrated/overvalued relative to financial and knowledge capital. People waste too much effort acquiring it
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You're either engaging in specious strawmanning of "Networking / Connector" types, trolling me, or you have a seriously complicated worldview / terminology here that I utterly do not understand.
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I think you just haven't experienced enough of the ugly side of networking and have an idealized view of it. Almost all of it is toxic. The tiny amount of good is a side effect of a) putting work out there b) making *very* rare and serious win-win collaboration overtures
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