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Thank you for another interesting read. Thiel is always a fascinating subject, and he does seem like one of the good guys, if good guys are capable of achieving billionaire status.

“Don’t we tax that which we want to see less of?”

Ideally this would be true, but it seems like we prefer to tax income, productivity and property ownership. I’d rather see waste fraud and abuse eliminated and limited taxation related to consumption.

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Sep 26, 2022·edited Sep 26, 2022

Precise, as I have noted in the few articles I have read. I might not agree with you on everything at my current level, but maybe I will at some point. You have shown (me, at least) that there is more actual depth to this whole paradigm, as opposed to the propagandized depth that has run rampant in every form of social media.

All of this to ask, humbly, what would you point to the best example of a group, company, project or effort that is, maybe not thriving yet, but making business ends meet in the non-advertising model of the internet?

My answer to this question, is what is ocurring within the BSV ecosystem. The best examples I would put forward is blockpost.network or Twetch.com as far as "social communication". But there are a good amount of other B2B oriented companies that are finding success still being pretty far from mainstream adoption.

And thank you for the free tier on the stack. I will upgrade once I get out of my current hole.

edited: typo

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