February 2012
2 posts
Mechanical Turk Stations for the Urban Poor
I was walking around downtown Philadelphia earlier today and seeing all the people walking around with nothing to do or panhandling, it got me thinking.
How can we inject money into this ecosystem in other ways than welfare or charity? For all the success that micro-lending has had in India and other countries, we haven’t really seen those benefits in American Urban areas. This can...
The Rise of the Subcultural Economy
This is a response to Venkatesh Rao’s post Peak attention and the colonization of subcultures. It’s a great article, a long read that I recommend everyone take a look at.
The TLDR of the post is that the Internet has connected subcultures to such an extent that in the near future we’ll see a corporate takeover of even the smallest cultural entity.
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I don’t entirely...