marc garrett on Sat, 5 Dec 2009 05:37:10 +0100 (CET) |
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Re: <nettime> Handoko Suwono: Facebook paves its way to IPO |
Hi Michael, It seems to me that it is not capitalism at issue here, more those who introduce frameworks in the guise of something else - a wolf in sheep's clothing. You do not necessarily have to be capitalist to exploit others, but it helps :-) marc > In other words, because the Facebook service is free for users, we are > working for the company. But if users paid for the service, as say > with telephone service, we would not be working for the company? This > is illogical. We are no more working for Facebook than for any other > service we use. > > One may criticize capitalism, but still try not to be nonsensical. > > Best, > Michael <...> # distributed via <nettime>: no commercial use without permission # <nettime> is a moderated mailing list for net criticism, # collaborative text filtering and cultural politics of the nets # more info: http://mail.kein.org/mailman/listinfo/nettime-l # archive: http://www.nettime.org contact: nettime@kein.org