Troy, We began this discussion on facebook. I appreciate your comments here. I am not sure if we are in a spiral. Where we ever what we think we were. I contest that we lack the consciousness but not the technology and capital. Facebook is a billion dollar corporation not simply a good idea. People work everyday to sync data, create algorithims, and create ways to connect with people, sell advertising slots, gain further capital, and the list goes on and on-I forgot sell data, create revenue. Karibu was poorly capitalized up until the end, highly leveraged-but with what my partner and I put in it, far more aggressive than most folks. We showed well, but it was labor intensive. In the end hundreds of thousands of people got access to back books-that's a good thing, but the personal cost was high. When the consciousness becomes important, I take it as a sign of ones own personal worth and the difficulties of competeing. You give me the capital and I can compete. Isn't that part of what Coates got at wtih reparations. How can we create strategies, invest and create models without the capital. I would agree we lack the community infrastructure to share the wealth, but that is just our path. I think content distribution is it-it will replace the bookstore. It intersects with journalism. Both industries need an overhall that is the opportunity. All of it, for me, is like a lab. I don't invest my money in it currently, I use the free platforms, watch, study and the like. It is daily rhythm and practice. Tell me a way i can direct more traffic towards you and I will.
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Troy, We began this discussion on facebook. I appreciate your comments here. I am not sure if we are in a spiral. Where we ever what we think we were. I contest that we lack the consciousness but not the technology and capital. Facebook is a billion dollar corporation not simply a good idea. People work everyday to sync data, create algorithims, and create ways to connect with people, sell advertising slots, gain further capital, and the list goes on and on-I forgot sell data, create revenue. Karibu was poorly capitalized up until the end, highly leveraged-but with what my partner and I put in it, far more aggressive than most folks. We showed well, but it was labor intensive. In the end hundreds of thousands of people got access to back books-that's a good thing, but the personal cost was high. When the consciousness becomes important, I take it as a sign of ones own personal worth and the difficulties of competeing. You give me the capital and I can compete. Isn't that part of what Coates got at wtih reparations. How can we create strategies, invest and create models without the capital. I would agree we lack the community infrastructure to share the wealth, but that is just our path. I think content distribution is it-it will replace the bookstore. It intersects with journalism. Both industries need an overhall that is the opportunity. All of it, for me, is like a lab. I don't invest my money in it currently, I use the free platforms, watch, study and the like. It is daily rhythm and practice. Tell me a way i can direct more traffic towards you and I will.