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The School of Wellbeing with Meg Durham
Social Media Doesn't Have to Work That Way
Meg Urry: Social media doesn't have to work that way. There's an analogy. You can see my flat through your screen. I still paint mud. We all collectively own the sewer pipes together, because before we had sewage pipes, there was shit in the streets and we got cholera,. So we all built the sewers together. It might be just like we own the sewage pipes together, we want to own the information pipes together. And it's going to get worse and worse as technology becomes more sophisticated if we don't deal with this core problem. Once the incentives change, the model will change. But for as long as the incentives are where they are, of
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