Paid in Full: an internet where every interaction is a financial transaction
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#2Imagine if blockstream hadn’t stunted Bitcoin. Nanotransactions could be our reality.
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#3This was part of the Xanadu dream. Everything is pay per view in Xanadu. Turned out there was no real market for that.
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#4Sounds dystopian to me
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#5This was part of the Xanadu dream. Everything is pay per view in Xanadu. Turned out there was no real market for that.
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#6Sounds dystopian to me
An internet that is drastically less tied to surveillance capitalism, and where participants directly exchange value with each other instead of through privacy intrusions? Sounds perfect to me.
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#7This was part of the Xanadu dream. Everything is pay per view in Xanadu. Turned out there was no real market for that.
Wasn't that decades ago? Times change and sometimes ideas are too new for its times.
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#8Sounds dystopian to me
An internet that is drastically less tied to surveillance capitalism, and where participants directly exchange value with each other instead of through privacy intrusions? Sounds perfect to me.
We do exchange value. Real value. I would not read webpages if I did not get value. Webpages would not be offered if those making them did not get value. Even when there was no commercialism on the Internet at all. Or why people do a lot of things without any money involved. Basing everything on "money" is a scourge. Not to mention the height of inefficiency. Our brains have to deal with something very different instead of the thing itself. Which also lead to a general inability to think about actual things - just "spend more money" to solve something, why even think about the actual things? Money-magic thinking.
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An internet that is drastically less tied to surveillance capitalism, and where participants directly exchange value with each other instead of through privacy intrusions? Sounds perfect to me.
We do exchange value. Real value. I would not read webpages if I did not get value. Webpages would not be offered if those making them did not get value. Even when there was no commercialism on the Internet at all. Or why people do a lot of things without any money involved. Basing everything on "money" is a scourge. Not to mention the height of inefficiency. Our brains have to deal with something very different inst…
> Webpages would not be offered if those making them did not get value.
If you’re not paying, you’re the product. Ads are a bigger scourge than “basing everything on money” which is just value made fungible.
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#10Earlier quoted context omitted.
We do exchange value. Real value. I would not read webpages if I did not get value. Webpages would not be offered if those making them did not get value. Even when there was no commercialism on the Internet at all. Or why people do a lot of things without any money involved. Basing everything on "money" is a scourge. Not to mention the height of inefficiency. Our brains have to deal with something very different inst…
> Webpages would not be offered if those making them did not get value. If you’re not paying, you’re the product. Ads are a bigger scourge than “basing everything on money” which is just value made fungible.
This isn't strictly true. It's only true if the entity creating the website needs to extract a monetary profit. Plenty of people make websites (and other products) and happily share them in a community. The benefit they draw is in the act of creating and sharing.