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augment_metoday at 6:05 AM2 repliesview on HN

Who cares if the consumer buys it and uses it? Information is worth nothing anymore, attention is, so if they manage to capture a larger audience somehow, they win.


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otterleytoday at 6:18 AM

> Information is worth nothing anymore

What do you do for a living? For most of us in the tech industry, information being worth something (because it takes creative and intellectual labor to produce) puts food on our tables.

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Eufrattoday at 6:59 AM

This laissez-faire logic is insane, but I think it is telling that a lot of folks here seem to have this mindset and makes me empathize with increasingly nihilistic people.