Taran RampersadA poem on the state of the #informationeconomy
https://knowprose.com/2025/05/the-new-lords-and-digital-oligarchs/
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The New Lords And Digital Oligarchs - KnowProSE.com
We were told the internet would be different.Open. Free. A space where anyone could publish, create, and reach anyone else.And for a time, that was true. But things changed. Today, the information economy looks less like a marketplaceand more like a manor.A few platforms own the land.We work it.They harvest the data.We get the likes.They