Trust, Bewilderment and Billionairedom: Understanding the Backlash Against Bezos
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Trust, Bewilderment and Billionairedom: Understanding the Backlash Against Bezos
homepages. This confusion is the sign of an unresolved relationship, a love triangle that seems to have come undone in our modern times: a relationship drama where citizens, institutions and experts seem unable to communicate. While institutions might trust experts, they seem wary of us, of our emotional stability. Not even experts, truth be told,
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What we’re seeing in the unbundling of publishing, including the rise of Substack newsletters, is people inherently trust other people more than faceless institutions. This is as true in publishing as it is in finance. Facebook has become a symbol of all that is wrong with the current state of digital media. The heart of crypto is establishing trus... See more
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Instead it is an argument to get to work building that kind of social trust in as many places as possible, because we’re going to need it. We’ve come through 75 years where having neighbors was essentially optional: if you had a credit card, you could get everything you needed to survive dropped off at your front door. But the next 75 years aren’t ... See more
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Trust as a Service (TaaS): A Vision for Twitter
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Jeff Bezos famously takes this to an extreme—based on his distrust of in-meeting