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Boosted by kevinevans@hachyderm.io ("Kevin"):
inthehands@hachyderm.io ("Paul Cantrell") wrote:
I looked something up on Stack Overflow, thought the existing answers were kind of meh, mulled the problem over, found a •much• better answer to the question, and then…I didn’t post it. I thought about Stack Overflow itself and all the harvesters and scrapers digesting my answer and not giving me one cent or even credit, and I just…didn’t.
The capture and extraction of the commons come with costs that are slow, pervasive, and hard to measure.