When I look back on when I first got excited about this internet thing
What excited me was the thought that we little people, we creators, could maybe get stuff out to the public without big media, and better still people could find our stuff without the damn worthless advertising people...
So twenty years on, what do we have: enormous dominance by the biggest of big companies, and its a bloody advertising/media company at that.
And why: well basically I guess its too many people had this bizarre feeling that advertising is a free lunch. Well there ain't no such thing as a free lunch, and mega media is taking all the money and offering the creators maybe a few crumbs off the table (if its not too inconvenient for them).
Looks like we're gonna rot in our Grave New World...