And the Saudi and Emirati rulers are basically Muslim Beverly Hillbillies: backward hicks who were thrust into prominence by their unearned oil wealth.
And the societies they rule aren't innovative either: why bother when you're swimming in so much money you can just pay foreigners to do all the crappy jobs?
One of the biggest attractions of centralized social media to its prospective users, was the promise that they'd be able to upload content (including big files such as videos) where it could be downloaded in a timely manner by potentially millions of other users.
Such a capability demands an extremely high (and expensive) bandwidth capacity, and centralized social media pays for this capacity by spying on its users in order to push ads to them.
This is why centralized social media leads to an enshittified extractive attention economy, while older forms of socializing on line (such as email, USENET and even older Web 2.0 forms like blogs and web forums) do not.
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The Beverly Hillbillies never invented anything
And the Saudi and Emirati rulers are basically Muslim Beverly Hillbillies: backward hicks who were thrust into prominence by their unearned oil wealth. And the societies they rule aren't innovative either: why bother when you're swimming in so much money you can just pay foreigners to do all the crappy jobs?
And for a fictional example of deadly oligarchal infighting...
...you only need to watch "Game of Thrones"!
The allure of "going viral" built centralized social media
One of the biggest attractions of centralized social media to its prospective users, was the promise that they'd be able to upload content (including big files such as videos) where it could be downloaded in a timely manner by potentially millions of other users. Such a capability demands an extremely high (and expensive) bandwidth capacity, and centralized social media pays for this capacity by spying on its users in order to push ads to them. This is why centralized social media leads to an enshittified extractive attention economy, while older forms of socializing on line (such as email, USENET and even older Web 2.0 forms like blogs and web forums) do not.