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user-inactivated · 3721 days ago · link · · parent · post: Will Oremus: Silicon Valley Has Officially Run Out of Ideas
It reminds me of an experience staying in the barro Palonco in Mexico City for a few months. Everyone I dealt with either had a maid ... or was a maid. The sharing economy is proto-fuedalism. Why develop more infrastructure when the super-majority, hoi polloi, can just further divide up their rations amongst themselves? Plus now they have citizens judging and reviewing each other instead of the corporations. The aristocracy isn't dead ... they just call it meritocracy now.