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Information abundance, like all markets of abundance, is bad for the average person but great for a small number of people.

The best metaphor is health, where obesity rates and the number of people in incredible shape are  both  rising. That’s why 71% of American adults are obese, while the people I see at Equinox in Manhattan have bodies

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But then came this summer’s unveiling of the aforementioned Midjourney, which is free to anyone via its Discord bot. An even bigger surprise was the release of Stable Diffusion, which is not only free, but also open source — and the resultant models can be run on your own computer.

Each age finds ways to close the relative distances of time and space in bringing humans into closer contact, communication, and community—enabling not only new forms of collectivization but the growing power of consumers and fans in giving feedback to centralized collectors and creators. At the same time, we move into greater and greater isolation... See more

This means, for the first time ever, we can have community ownership and network alignment completely consistent with capitalism. And this is uniquely unlocked by crypto tokens that enable us to distribute the value of ownership in the same way we distribute information — instantly, to anyone, anywhere in the world.

Things tend to get worse as they scale. As startups turn to large corporations, they empty of meaning. The tight social bonds of a village fail in the big city. What goes wrong?