Commenter reframes commodification as potentially positive if widely accessible
3 Yesterday 6:38 PM · 21h ago · 1 comment · 1 source · development 3 of 6
A Lobsters commenter offers an alternative framing, arguing that if widely distributed, commodified skill could solve societal problems by making expertise "too cheap to meter" and available to everyone.
“If we get it right, we can get 'any skill, too cheap to meter, available to everyone' which will instantaneously solve a whole host of societal problems”
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Personally I've been thinking of it as commodified skill, which has maybe a smidge of a more positive interpretation if you (as I do) model our current world as terribly skill-starved in nearly every domain. If we get it right, we can get "any skill, too cheap to meter, available to everyone" which will instantaneously solve a whole host of…
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