ME IN THE 90s: The internet will allow artists to detach from middlemen and distributors and outmoded and inefficient sales channels and make much, much more money from the same amount of work. This is called dis-intermediation.
ME NOW: Billionaires control my relationship with my friends and sell me the right to ‘boost’ my messages in their feeds. Stand alone content creators websites are like tar paper lemonade stands squatting beneath the overpasses of interstate highways.
Donald Trump couldn’t successfully monetize his blog without social media. He is worshipped as a God by tens of millions of people.
