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Re:The Fathers of the Internet Urge Today’s Software Enginee... by quadrangle on Sunday June 19, 2016 @10:22PM (#11935743)
Jaron Lanier also talks about a mythical 20th century that was good for middle-class artists and musicians, completely in contrast to evidence from reality.

He's 100% right that hollowing out of the middle class is a serious problem for a free society. His prescriptions about IP are mostly nonsense.

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Re:The Fathers of the Internet Urge Today’s Software Enginee... by maus42 on Monday June 20, 2016 @01:49AM (#11936255)
I suspect some perception bias. There weren't that many artists and musicians around to have significant effect on the middle class whole (and artists and such weren't especially middle class).
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