Milking Era
The Great Milking: How the Internet Became a Cash Cow
In the golden age of the internet, we were promised a digital utopia, a land of infinite possibilities. But as the years have passed, it's become increasingly clear that this utopian vision has been replaced by a more cynical reality: the Great Milking.
Once-innovative platforms, once champions of the digital revolution, have transformed into corporate behemoths, relentlessly seeking to extract maximum value from their user base. Streaming services, once hailed as the future of entertainment, now impose restrictive subscription tiers and limit content libraries. (or bombard them with ads) Social media platforms, designed to connect people, have become surveillance tools, harvesting our data and selling it to the highest bidder.
Payment processors, like PayPal, have also joined the milking frenzy. By raising fees and imposing stricter regulations, they're ensuring that every transaction, no matter how small, contributes to their bottom line. And let's not forget about the ever-increasing cost of cloud storage, where every gigabyte of data comes at a premium.
It seems that the internet, once a free and open space, has been transformed into a vast digital pasture, where users are the cattle and corporations are the farmers. As we continue to navigate this increasingly monetized digital landscape, it's important to remember that the true cost of convenience may be higher than we initially thought.
