"Remember the <Predator> movies? They are a beloved sci-fi horror franchise about a giant alien gorilla-crab monster who hunts human beings. In one of the recent sequels, a group of humans — each more badass than the last — are kidnapped and dropped on another planet, to be hunted by the titular character. At one point, they stumble upon the skeleton of another person and learn that they are not the first group of prey to be dumped onto Planet Predator. Then, later, they meet a human, played magnificently by Lawrence Fishburne, who has found a way to survive on the intergalactic game preserve. Against all odds, he has eked out an existence without being blasted into chunks by lasers or butchered by space swords. But he’d already gone insane from years of isolation and fear — and from the knowledge that at any moment, randomly, he could be killed in a spectacular fashion.

Anyway, that’s how I feel after working in digital media for 20 years.

[…]

Now I am not an expert in the stock market or capitalism. I have never read Marx. Hell, I don’t even read Paul Krugman. But what I know about the modern American economy is this: it’s bubbles all the way down.

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I thought having an opinion would be easy. It turns out it is not easy. At least, it’s not easy to have an original opinion. Human beings parrot other opinions too easily. Information is power and opinions are information. Therefore, opinions are power. They are, however, a very small power. The kind of power a grade school class clown who farts during moments of silence wields. Opinion is easy to produce and goes stale quick, like a donut. One reason opinions are so disposable is that opinions are the easiest kind of information to manufacture. See? I just made a fresh opinion. There is nothing wrong with the opinion business, but I just don’t think it’s wise for America to transform into an opinion-based economy.

[…]

I am currently unemployed. But I’m hopeful".

Digital Media Is a Wasteland – Member Feature Stories – Medium

I am a writer and editor who launched his first site in 1999. Since then, I have either launched or edited at least 30 sites, maybe more. I have been laid off three times, and each one is different.

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