In short, technology made it much easier to clean a house to 1890s standards. But by mid-century, Americans didn’t want that old house. They wanted a modern home—with delicious meals and dustless windowsills and glistening floors—and this delicious and dustless glisten required a 40-to-50-hour workweek, even with the assistance of modern tools.
How token enables them to pay lower fees: To use microsoft windows, you have to pay Microsoft a license. To use linux, it's free. There's no business model there because it's a public good. Braintrust the protocol is open source, it was created as a public good, it exists to benefit talent and clients that are owning and controlling it. It was... See more
Games are seen as a tool to sell cloud - Amazon wants to build computationally intensive games that show off the power of the cloud to their enterprise customers, and that creates the wrong incentives for building fun games
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