220. The Landlords Who Own the Internet (ft. Dan Greene)
This Machine Kills
The Role of Advertising in the Internet
The Internet exists for advertising, right? Like every every aspect of our user interaction, website design, you know, business model, infrastructure, operation, technological innovation, then they exist solely in the service of advertising and advertising revenue. And if we push it down even further down the kind of the political economy to the landlords of the Internet, I think we could convincingly say that all of those things are also at the behest of real estate investment trust. This is a nice segue because I wanted to really emphasize a point that you also kind of in the article talking about which is this direct comparison between big techs, ownership and operation of cloud infrastructure, and these realestate investment trust ownership
