Are We Starting to Optimize for GDP?

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We can't even guarantee health insurance to people so that they can, you know, with some sort of confidence leave and start their own jobs if they have a family. Like, where do we put the humans they'lle certainly is going to need to be some sort of minimum foor r some sort of guaranteed income. I'm just wondering whether enough assumptions have changed that we should revisit the underlying assumption. A lot of stuff you're saying sound similar, stuff similar to things that iave said in the past. Yoor talking to you. See you a sons, ge, talked you later.

In this week’s episode we spend a good bit of time revisiting the native ads discussion, then dive into the different ways that Twitter and Facebook have handled the news this week. From there we discuss Twitter’s timeline changes, the realities of venture capital, and whether or not our entire economic system will survive the automation revolution. Yes, it gets deep quickly!

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Ben Thompson: Print, Chinese Walls, and “Objective” Journalism – Stratechery (members only)
Clay Shirky: Last Call – Medium
Jay Rosen: When Quoting Both Sides and Leaving it There is the Riskier Call – PressThink
Hamilton Nolan: Time Inc. Rates Writers on How “Beneficial” They Are to Advertisers – Gawker
Derek Willis: New Republican Leader Finds New Friends, and Quick Cash – New York Times
Marco Arment: I’ll Never Fly Amazon Again – Marco.org
Ben Thompson: Twitter is Great for Unprofitable News – Stratechery (members-only)
Mathew Ingram: Twitter vs. Facebook as a news source – GigaOm
Matt Buchanan: The Twitter of Tomorrow – New Yorker
Humans Need Not Apply – YouTube