An interesting read – Has
democracy outlived its promise? By MARK KINGWELL
Kingwell states:
“Yet, the makers-versus-takers rhetoric of Silicon Valley is oddly enbubbled, operating on a willful blindness about the very same markets they would see run free. First, there is no such thing as an unregulated market, just markets that are more or less regulated in one’s favour. Second, there are no makers without takers. The owners of platforms are free to despise the consumers of content as sad flocks of sheeple, but without that consumer base, they are innovators of pure imagination – in other words, academics.”
“Yet, the makers-versus-takers rhetoric of Silicon Valley is oddly enbubbled, operating on a willful blindness about the very same markets they would see run free. First, there is no such thing as an unregulated market, just markets that are more or less regulated in one’s favour. Second, there are no makers without takers. The owners of platforms are free to despise the consumers of content as sad flocks of sheeple, but without that consumer base, they are innovators of pure imagination – in other words, academics.”