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"The products youâre being sold today almost certainly try to wed you to a particular ecosystem â one owned by Microsoft, Apple, Amazon or Google, as a consumer at least â and, in turn, increase the burden of leaving said ecosystem. Even cryptocurrency â ostensibly a âdecentralizedâ technology â quickly abandoned its free-wheeling libertarian ideas and sought to consolidate users on one of a few big platforms like Coinbase, OpenSea, Blur or Uniswap, all backed by the same venture capital firms (like Andreessen Horowitz). Rather than being flag bearers for a new, radically independent online economic system, they were all only able to scale through the funds and connections of the same people that funded every other recent era of the internet." 4 replies
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