
Bonus: Big Technology feat. Alex Kantrowitz with Tristan Harris
Hello Monday with Jessi Hempel
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Why Is It More Profitable for You to Buy Your Own Lawnmower Than to Have a YouTube Library?
In general, having you sit there by yourself on a screen is way more profitable to that entire industry than having you spend more time in community with friends over dinner tables with candles. So in other words, loneliness and isolation are definitely exacerbated by that background effect that subtly wants to atomize and pull us apart. But that's much like every other aspect of our economic system. It's more profitable for people to get diabetes and then sell you a subscription plan for treatment than to have you be healthy in the first place. And I think these are the kinds of things that people do find valuable on YouTube.
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