42 sats \ 3 replies \ @SimpleStacker 29 Dec 2023 \ on: The War on Informality bitcoin
Great piece. I had a similar feeling when I visited Shanghai and wrote about it here on Stacker News.
In the current phase of the global economy, you’re told that you will be ‘left behind’ unless you leap aboard the platforms required to reach the requisite level of automation that everyone’s expected to sync up to.
This sentence struck me the most as this was the same feeling I got from Shanghai. They're slowly shrinking the realm of human activity that isn't intermediated by a corporately owned platform. The organic is becoming less important than the inorganic. We're becoming cyborgs
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0 sats \ 1 reply \ @chungkingexpress 30 Dec 2023
I found reading that perspective very valuable, having visited Shanghai some years ago.
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0 sats \ 0 replies \ @SimpleStacker 30 Dec 2023
thanks, I enjoyed writing it too
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0 sats \ 0 replies \ @0fje0 OP 29 Dec 2023
I had a similar feeling when I visited Shanghai and wrote about it here on Stacker News.
I managed to miss that, somehow. Just skimmed it now; will dive in a bit later, thanks.
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