You know what? I’m gonna call this a net-benefit for humanity. I think it has a higher-than-typical probability of driving people offline or to decentralized solutions. Either would reduce the incentives for superficiality, narcissism, and group think.

Watch it swing wildly into dystopian levels of control as people volunteer their entire ability to think to the state just for more 5-second clips of cats. If that happens, I’ll be happily living the offline life invisibly in the country.