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mcc@mcc@mastodon.social (2026-09-06 00:32:19)
There is a technology which is so expensive to operate that *just by existing*, it has made things like RAM and hard drives unaffordable to me and the humans I know, because the expensive technology's operational demands are so high they had to buy RAM and hard drives *until there weren't anymore RAM or hard drives*.

*A technology with this property is not, and was never going to be, a "democratizing" technology*.

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mcc@mcc@mastodon.social (2026-09-06 00:32:31)
"Democratizing" seems to imply it brings some sort of power to everyone, more or less equally, "democratically". Is there a word for a technology which brings power exclusively to people who can afford high financial demands, and brings more power to you the more you are able to pay for it? Yes, there's a word for that. The word is "classist"