[emptysongglass]

It's people flocking to yet another thing that doesn't have its users best interests at heart. That's the core of the problem. No product has endured that hasn't turned against its users. Products created with capital incentives eventually compete against their users' interests.

Many of us here have seen these tides over a long enough period to know what's coming. Young people haven't seen more than a cycle to protect themselves so they buy in to what's easiest. It's a short-term outlook.

Google Talk could have ruled the world of communication built on a real decentralized protocol but it wasn't profitable. Things that aren't profitable get shit-canned or worked over until they are profitable. Once they are profitable market incentives demand they become more profitable and then yet more profitable endlessly.

If human beings just stopped for one second and asked where's the money in this? What's the play? Well, we'd make smarter decisions all around.

Nothing more than five inches in front of our faces at all times.

I do wish we changed the incentives so we could build enduring protocols aligned with user interests.