pyramid困难

Some archaeological sites have always been easily observable — for example, the Parthenon in Athens, Greece; the pyramids of Giza in Egypt; and the megaliths of Stonehenge in southern England.

有些考古遗址一直都很容易看到——例如，希腊雅典的帕特农神庙、埃及吉萨的金字塔，以及英格兰南部巨石阵的巨石。

Even after the advent of widespread social media, a pyramid of production remains, with a small number of people uploading material, a slightly larger group commenting on or modifying that content, and a huge percentage remaining content to just consume.

即使在社交媒体普及之后，生产金字塔依然存在：少数人上传素材，稍多一些的人评论或修改这些内容，而绝大多数人仍满足于单纯消费。

One reason for the persistence of this pyramid of production is that for the past half-century, much of the world's media culture has been defined by a single medium — television — and television is defined by downloading.

这种生产金字塔之所以持续存在，原因之一是在过去半个世纪里，世界上大部分媒体文化都由单一媒介——电视——所定义，而电视的本质就是下载。