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The Unbundling Thesis
Media unbundled over 30 years. Markets are next — and the interesting question is what becomes an asset that wasn't one before.
How it works
- 1NBC monoculture → cable → internet → Reddit's network of communities: media unbundled completely.
- 2Markets are now unbundling: assets, market makers, and evaluators collapse into the individual.
- 3Real-world assets on chain is "putting radio on television" — obvious but not transformative.
- 4The transformative question: what becomes an asset class that was previously just reputation?
- 5Expertise is the answer. The lens is the token.
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