I don’t think scale (alone) is sufficient. All products and services in some way exist along a scale from niche product (which benefits from public infrastructure like roads that let it be delivered places) up to utilities (which can only exist by providing something approaching monopolistic grants and easements)
But I have been significantly persuaded by your point about the vast body of cultural work being its own sort of (more abstract) landscape of… “socio-human natural resource” … maybe is a not awful way to put it.
In which case I still don’t thing the same comparison to ISP’s applies, not quite, but I do think we need a new category and body of social norms and laws to deal with this.
Or at least that’s my first-pass take after reading your comment, which I am, again, very persuaded by to modify my views on the issues. Thanks for casting things in that light.
But I have been significantly persuaded by your point about the vast body of cultural work being its own sort of (more abstract) landscape of… “socio-human natural resource” … maybe is a not awful way to put it.
In which case I still don’t thing the same comparison to ISP’s applies, not quite, but I do think we need a new category and body of social norms and laws to deal with this.
Or at least that’s my first-pass take after reading your comment, which I am, again, very persuaded by to modify my views on the issues. Thanks for casting things in that light.