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Every time you think that these huge centralized platforms have too much power, remember that almost none of them provie direct services anymore. Facebook doesn't create its posts Uber doesn't drive its customers around Airbnb doesn't wash the linens in your rental Youtube doesn't film their video library All of these platforms only have the power of the content and engagement that WE give them. Without us, they are worthless. Never forget that the simple act of leaving and taking our creations, media, engagement, and our value somewhere else, will turn them into nothing overnight. This is why decentralization is the only path forward. There is no alternative.

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Guy Swann's avatar Guy Swann
Every time you think that these huge centralized platforms have too much power, remember that almost none of them provie direct services anymore. Facebook doesn't create its posts Uber doesn't drive its customers around Airbnb doesn't wash the linens in your rental Youtube doesn't film their video library All of these platforms only have the power of the content and engagement that WE give them. Without us, they are worthless. Never forget that the simple act of leaving and taking our creations, media, engagement, and our value somewhere else, will turn them into nothing overnight. This is why decentralization is the only path forward. There is no alternative.
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↩ replying to npub1t68p...uf0u
Anyone with an expertise in code could build an open source protocol that creates an encrypted handshake between drivers that are available and rider demands. suggestions: bidding system, filters by location, lightning payment rails, blind rating system, and vehicle capacity filters. Most everything comes down to the egoic need for recognition over having the things we want. Do you want an actually good video game? build it. Give it away and you will have the game you wanted. The compensation for a service only comes upon request not demand.
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The sense of a fundamental cultural dichotomy between a unifying force (centralising) and a dispersing energy (decentralising) is an idea which was first raised in 1930's by a Russian Mikhail Bakhtin. If we assume that we each contain an aspect of both of these forces the challenge is to find a balance which maintains the tension between these opposing forces and avoid veering to either one side or the other.
↩ replying to npub10xqs...hfvv
Bitcoin is a record keeping system, which is what money is as I explained in the video. So yes it provides as extremely valuable and critically necessary service for the economy that uses it. The individual cannot get bitcoin without providing a service or value in exchange for it. That’s the whole point. Rather than entire industries surviving on counterfeit, people have to actually exchange something and provide value to others in order to earn some bitcoin.
↩ replying to npub10wsu...3hd3
It has not been working well. It has created a bloated, corrupt financial system, it has created the largest debt imbalance in human history. It has systematically stolen from the middle and lower classes at the benefit of the political and counterfeit class. It has funded a century of literal total, never ending war. The power of a select, privileged group to unilaterally counterfeit money that everyone else is forced to use is the most absurd, corrupting power that society could possibly create. The idea that this is good for anything is beyond ridiculous. It is a horrendous cancer upon society.
↩ replying to Guy Swann
That when people lost it. Money is a value, not a system to maintain or to control, but just a value (rare and not). People are in bitcoin just to get a part of that system (part of the bitcoin tax). Bitcoin is not use to exchange value, but to ear that part of a system. Even when govs come to tell them to wear a donkey hat they will gladly put it on, and ear that part of a system. If i get to sum up all of this : bitcoin is not money but a system of something that can be called money.
basically what you are saying is that they are collecting money off of other people's work ( reeks of #socialism and #taxation imo ) that's been all of their models since these platforms all started it's encouraging to see posts by people who get this they don't provide anything to creators other than a contract that says that they own people's work ... sound familiar?
↩ replying to Sacred Peak
Technically, what they “own” and provide is a system of network connections because we failed to build technology that allows us to make those connections without them. And they have exploited that simple fact to the most insane and abusive degree possible. So while you’re right in a sense, i think it’s more precise not to say they don’t provide anything at all, but that they have created a giant closed environment so they can rent seek off of everyone who joins it to find other people (rather than something they provide directly). They’ve tried to “own” the market square and the very idea of others’ communication.