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Tristan Harris: “Social Media: Bringing the Ring to Mordor”

The Great Simplification with Nate Hagens

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Is There a Connection Between Technology and the Economy?

We have downward causation caused by the financial markets, that we are out sourcing our decisions to the a, to the market, to the financial system. We can't live outside of it yet, until there are options or a change. And so i think they're very similar, in fact, of possible ways to talk about this issue. The attention based on advertising generated a bunch of wealth based on extracting human attention, treating us as the product, not the customer. But now we need a switch to a new paradise, just like we have to do with energy.

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