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Tyler Cowen: The Quiet Dangers of Complacency

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The Risks of Complacency on Social Media

I'm a little worried those two are becoming our kind of placebo. Sometimes even instead of the issues that we all know are urgent and indeed are urgent. And I think also with social media one of the worst things about social media is you actually end up seeing how bad some of the people are you disagree with. You become thinking about them and how bad they are and the fact that you're right makes it worse. So sometimes people say well I live in a bubble you know my way out of this bubble is to follow more people on Twitter I disagree with. That might be one of those placebo's that make it worse.

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