July
@july
Web 2 is digital feudalism The platforms hold digital land from the gov’t in exchange for corporate taxes The workers are in paid to work on the platforms, while the users (aka serfs) are obliged to live on the platforms and give homage, labor, and a share of their life, toil away endlessly
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Eric Platon
@ic
A bit provocative: How would Web3 *not* be feudalism? Or rather today the "technofeudalism" that Varoufakis talks about? Techno is the problem. Demos is the people. If the people need the technology to hope getting at Web3, the demos is not "sufficient" to be a citizen anymore.
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Eric Platon
@ic
So only the people who (1) can afford the tech (economical angle), (2) can access enough resource for the tech to exist (physical angle) are Web3 equipped. What about the rest of the Demos? And what about the rents payed to be part of the Web3 sphere.
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July
@july
This is a fantastic retort Imo purposefully left out mentioning Web3 itself as a solution since, I do fear that we will have more of the same I don’t find techno itself to be the problem, but what is dictating the techno is diverging - humanity and the demos used to be on one track, now we have millions of threads
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Daniel
@dmg
Or up a level, and even more provocative: how would a cybernetic command and control network deployed on the civilian population post WW2 *not* be feudalism?
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Daniel
@dmg
Seems reasonable to argue there is always technology/techne of citizenship. Whether it be money, knowledge of law, privileged communication channels, or access to information.
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