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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Much of the value of a specific network is sentimental. It is valued for its own sake not what it can do in economic terms.
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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Sure. I want to do just the good part + build tools for other people to also do that. Medium is a good start but is not actually a long-term option -- fat protocols all the way.
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But "just the good parts" is a good goal. Evidence from the dating sub-problem suggests it is actually doable technologyreview.com/s/609091/first
Oh man, I actually have a great solution for dating websites I'd totally work on if someone gave me $2 million... and I wasn't busy fixing the internet :p.
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