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Re:WhatsApp Cofounder Brian Acton on Why He Left $850M Behind by gaius on Wednesday September 26, 2018 @04:17PM (#18079848)
without actually benefitting customers, and most of them involve strip-mining value built up over the long term at the expense of the future

I think of this as the conversion of social capital into financial. The monetisation of things that used to be personal relationships, such as becoming intermediaries what used to be direct interaction.

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