Notices by Preston Austin (gl33p@mastodon.social), page 2

Mobile apps are like billionaires. They steal time from everyone. All that they make is taken from common value, at a loss. There's no problem they solve that doesn't have a better already realized solution. They kill both the commercial opportunities that will sustain those solutions and increase the cost of subsidizing solutions. Their companies decide who has permission to work or play together. Everyone knows about them, and way too many people believe that they're somehow special or unique.

Stated differently: We by and large trust the worst people in the world to actually provide what we want and/or need in the future an exceedingly great deal more than we trust each other to actually provide what we want and/or need in the future.

All funding problems are trust problems.

Anyone who claims that those of us without children don't care about the future is telling us something important about themself.

They are telling us that they did not care about other people's children.

And they quite possibly still don't care about them, not directly. Their care for their own may well be deep and durable, while their care for others' remains fundamentally contingent. They can think a future is good full stop if it's good for their children. TBH I find that deeply disturbing.