As for your first point. I'd say 90%, not 99%, but basically true enough.
However, so what? There's no real loss here. I mean if there was a right to an audience and we had to read that crap, that would be a problem. In fact, as soon as people get audience share they'll probably be more attentive to what they write. This doesn't mean quality will necessarily go up. They might give scantily clad pictures instead. But they will probably give the people what they want.
Anyways, as I say to Rowyn, I do favor cost transparency. All food/medical care/shelter is not created equal. However, when consumers are driven by necessity they will have to find ways to use the resources they are given access to in order to meet their basic needs. I'm not really worried about people at a soup kitchen deciding to load up exclusively on ketchup. Their stomachs will strongly mandate against that option.
In the larger sense, I do think that your Myspace/LJ option does hold to a degree. At our level of prosperity, a minimal level of food/shelter/clothing are not that much harder to provide than server space. This is why even the most free market of the developed countries, such as the U.S., don't really have absolute poverty ($1 a day or less purchasing power parity). I consider our lack of absolute poverty an excellent thing.
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Date: 2007-07-03 04:10 pm (UTC)However, so what? There's no real loss here. I mean if there was a right to an audience and we had to read that crap, that would be a problem. In fact, as soon as people get audience share they'll probably be more attentive to what they write. This doesn't mean quality will necessarily go up. They might give scantily clad pictures instead. But they will probably give the people what they want.
Anyways, as I say to Rowyn, I do favor cost transparency. All food/medical care/shelter is not created equal. However, when consumers are driven by necessity they will have to find ways to use the resources they are given access to in order to meet their basic needs. I'm not really worried about people at a soup kitchen deciding to load up exclusively on ketchup. Their stomachs will strongly mandate against that option.
In the larger sense, I do think that your Myspace/LJ option does hold to a degree. At our level of prosperity, a minimal level of food/shelter/clothing are not that much harder to provide than server space. This is why even the most free market of the developed countries, such as the U.S., don't really have absolute poverty ($1 a day or less purchasing power parity). I consider our lack of absolute poverty an excellent thing.