steemit lets the creators of content get paid rather than the "merchant". back in the day, werent merchants just considered less valuable because they produced nothing? But as Steve Jobs pointed out, the marketing/advertising budget will outweigh innovation, tech advances (in a monopoly) because if you own the market share... how do you sell more??
Dongles? You cant make money off of something that someone else is giving away for free, they threaten your business. O'hare cant sell the air if you giving away the air for free (The Lorax, Dr. Suess)!
why is Disney leaving Netflix. why did HBO launch their own? is everyone cutting out the middleman? the facebook, youtube, the google, people privatizing security so they have exclusive rights to sell ours? Naw, we will sell our own data. If only some
of the dystopian authors could see this shit. We survey ourselves willingly. The governments are trying to keep up, minority report up next.
Living in VR over real life is plausible. You could live any reality you want. The only restrictions are the limitations to the game.
Sounds familiar,
like real life to me.
