@Triskerslake
> It's sad really, I remember using Google when it first appeared - all rough and raw as it was, it was still miles better than it's become.

#Google was *devastatingly* superior to any other search engine when it started. All the business needed to do was maintain that lead and sustainably meet the needs of their users.

And yet, because in #capitalism, funders want #monopoly and #EndlessGrowth, not sustainability, the corporation is now killing their one good invention.

“When they first started out, Page and Brin had a distaste for using #advertising as the foundation for their business plan. In an academic paper that the two wrote while still at Stanford, they said that "advertising-funded search engines will inherently be biased toward the advertisers and away from the needs of consumers."”

https://www.oreilly.com/library/view/google-speaks-secrets/9780470398548/9780470398548_aversion_to_advertising.html

#BipartisanTrickleDown: Defining #poverty as a #cultural rather than an #economicproblem comported with the #ColdWar #propaganda that extolled an American #wayoflife in which the promise of #endlessgrowth had supposedly overcome class tensions

#RightToWork #AllJobsShouldBeUnionJobs #guaranteedbasicincome

https://www.thenation.com/article/society/inequality-poverty-unemployment-johnson/

@andi
NFT and ETH are not hugely important in our view. But #bitcoin is. If you are an environmentalist and are against #endlessGrowth, can we suggest a video?

Search for "Bitcoin vs political power" by a person called Stephan. Its not long.

Then come back and we can discuss more if you like.

The ppl you work with might simply be willfully ignorant because they get first dibs on #moneyPrinting, dubbed the #cantillonEffect.

If you're passionate about peace and sustainability check that video.