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Maybe so but since I am in no

EmmaZahn — Sat, 18 May 2013 20:33:23 +0000

Maybe so but since I am in no prized demographic, it is really annoys me by not showing me a greater variety of ads. I really hate how the targeting algorithms limit so much of what I see unless I game them.

Anyway, thought you might be interested in one of the online conversations about some alternatives:

Gross Domestic Collaboration | FT Alphaville

In this series FT Alphaville explores the rise of the collaborative economy, including everything from P2P lending and Facebook to home exchanging and couch surfing. We also look at the extent to which the movement represents a new type of shadow banking and how it stands to change and influence traditional finance and capital.

I think the conglomerates

PeraclesPlease — Fri, 17 May 2013 21:38:21 +0000

In reply to It used to be most of us were

I think the conglomerates still own us, we just do more of the work for them now.

Think of Google - they just sit back and let us click and pocket the change. Must be tough. Facebook changes terms to own everything we put online. We tell marketers how to market, they just follow the dotted lines, take all our demographic data and plug it into a cookie cutter program.

It used to be most of us were

EmmaZahn — Fri, 17 May 2013 21:19:07 +0000

In reply to Destroying the Labor Market

It used to be most of us were consumers of news and marketing, while a few made their money that way. Now we're all "engaged" (sad co-opting of that word) - selling our goods on Craigslist & eBay, friending & liking pages up the rec list, putting our portals & blogs on-line, passing on videos if not doing mash-ups of our own...

So you think extensive wage slavery to dependency-inducing conglomerates is the preferable way to run a market economy?

Maybe it's because I'm a

Verified Atheist — Fri, 17 May 2013 20:18:56 +0000

In reply to Destroying the Labor Market

Maybe it's because I'm a math-lover, but I found this study that was mentioned in the linked article to be very much worth the read:

http://www.princeton.edu/~bartels/economic.pdf

I was skeptical of how they would measure representational responsiveness until I read the methods that were actually used. (Not that the model used was pioneered by that paper, but I was unaware of that model until reading the paper.)

I believe one could find

artappraiser — Fri, 17 May 2013 19:42:08 +0000

In reply to Destroying the Labor Market

I believe one could find historical equivalents for most everything in your rant (not the linked article) in Tocqueville's Democracy in America. We were never a nation of good comrades.