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MONOPOLY CAPITALISM
Peter Thiel, Blake Masters • Zero to One
Here’s the thing: Whatever you think of capitalism, the evidence is overwhelming: Social networks with a single proprietor have trouble with long-term survival, and those do survive have trouble with user-experience quality: see Enshittification.
ongoing by Tim Bray • Why Not Bluesky
Scott Kominers • A Labor Movement for the Platform Economy
In a static world, a monopolist is just a rent collector.
Peter Thiel, Blake Masters • Zero to One
Howard Rheingold
Nathan Schneider • Governable Spaces: Democratic Design for Online Life
In a world of scarce resources, globalization without new technology is unsustainable.
Peter Thiel, Blake Masters • Zero to One
the network is not some renewable natural resource but a man-made structure, one that exists only owing to decades of infrastructure building at great cost to great companies,
Tim Wu • The Master Switch: The Rise and Fall of Information Empires (Vintage)
The nearly infinite demand implicit in “free” runs into the finitude of bandwidth, optical innovation, and finance—a finitude that reflects the inexorable scarcity of time.