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2023-10-21 00:44:35

John Quiggin on Nostr: Starting a response to Andreessen manifesto. 1. Markets, characterised as "Willing ...

Starting a response to Andreessen manifesto.

1. Markets, characterised as "Willing buyer meets willing seller, a price is struck, both sides benefit from the exchange or it doesn’t happen"have played a very minor role in the rise of the Internet.
* Internet itself created in the public sector
* Same for World Wide Web, Wikipedia, blogs
* Google, Facebook etc rely on attaching ads to content produced by others, not markets
* Rest of tech sector relies on state-created intellectual property rights
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