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

It’s easy to go from this and ask ourselves, what is the answer? I’m reminded of this cast from @pixel

creating and destroying; flying cars, roc.camera, july.rocks

And this from @gilles 

https://warpcast.com/gilles/0xffa4b6

It’s easy to go from this and ask ourselves, what is the answer? I’m reminded of this cast from @pixel 

https://warpcast.com/pixel/0x71b8f7

Co-founder, developer at Creaton. Interest in off-chain regenerative farming 👨‍🌾

Yanis is the man - rad I’ll have to check it out

Yanis Varoufakis is gonna drop a book called Technofeudalism in a few days

Scientist and engineer interested in Life.

Work on (GOF)AI, Agriculture, Biology, Energy, Robotics, Space---all topics climate-aware.

Kuriyama, Yubari District, Hokkaido, Japan

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

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.

Look at this - @entropybender bending entropy to his will in the wild. Beautiful.

“I been thinking about us, too, about our people living like pigs and good rich land layin' fallow.” 

- The Grapes of Wrath

Little did we know being an information worker would mostly be in our “spare time”

￼And yes, we all live in a series of feudal prefectures… not dissimilar to GoT

My realization of this came a few years ago, when on a whim, I looked at the videos I've "liked" on YouTube. for the videos I liked 2008-2011 a full 70% were marked as "this video is unavailable". I tried this experiment around 2020. Now if I do this, those unavailable videos are completely gone zero trace of them.