Re:A Guide to Statistics on Historical Trends in Income Ineq...
by johnchristopher on Friday November 23, 2018 @06:35PM
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> Are you saying that data is the means of production?
No, I was thinking about the infrastructure (servers). I am saying that Facebook has the infrastructure (rackspace) to produce (or subsidize the production) content and the money actually goes to Facebook. I don't know if the reasoning is sound though: would a newspaper own the means of production if they owned the printing machines ?
Re:A Guide to Statistics on Historical Trends in Income Ineq...
by jeffdavis on Sunday November 25, 2018 @08:00PM
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Servers are capital, I agree, but I don't think that's what makes FB valuable. The data is what's valuable, and I think it's a mistake to think of data as capital.
No, I was thinking about the infrastructure (servers). I am saying that Facebook has the infrastructure (rackspace) to produce (or subsidize the production) content and the money actually goes to Facebook. I don't know if the reasoning is sound though: would a newspaper own the means of production if they owned the printing machines ?