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From the Vault: Tristan Harris on Silicon Valley's race to capture your attention

Andrew Yang Podcast

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Is Fracking for Human Attention a Bigger Thing?

We're selling thinner and thinner slices of human attention, as if it's worth the same as valuable, concentrated attention. We need a transition plan from each company maximizing how much attention that they kind of tract to winding down how much modification of human attention we can do overtime. You can't just say, we're going to get completely off of oil in one year, and carbon prices are going to be set to a million dollars a ton,. You set up a transition plan over ten years. Fragility creating system so much like you want it. The extractof economy built on not just extracting human but as we talked about in an earlier interview, we did im fracking for human attention.

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