Youno, the whistle blower, appeared before congress yesterday. Corse sunday night on 60 mintes, you know, spilled the beans that there's a incentive problem with a capitalism. The point of facebook its it's a for profit public company. And so theire incentive ise to drive people to be more polarized, because it keeps them on the page longer. That, she says, is in conflict with our other moral values, especially teen aged girls.
Boomers are narcissists. Millennials are spoiled. Gen Zers are lazy. We assume people born around the same time have basically the same values. But, do they? Michael Shermer speaks with social researcher Bobby Duffy who has spent years studying generational distinctions. In The Generation Myth, he argues that our generational identities are not fixed but fluid, reforming throughout our lives. Based on an analysis of what over three million people really think about homeownership, sex, well-being, and more, Duffy offers a new model for understanding how generations form, how they shape societies, and why generational differences aren’t as sharp as we think.