"But the terms and dynamics can be profoundly different, supporting startups that are intentionally less efficient, perhaps even making use of the skills of blue collar coders to provide a lot of people will good, solid middle-class jobs instead of optimizing, as current companies do, for making a small number of people enormously wealthy." - Anil Dash, 'Rebuilding the Web We Lost' https://anildash.com/2012/12/18/rebuilding_the_web_we_lost/ #PlatformCooperatives
"Right now, all of the places we can assemble on the web in any kind of numbers are privately owned. And privately-owned public spaces aren’t real public spaces." - Anil Dash again https://anildash.com/2012/12/18/rebuilding_the_web_we_lost/