Anticapitalism
The traditional solutions - fact-checking, media literacy, content moderation - assume we’re dealing with a content problem when we’re actually facing an infrastructure problem. You can’t fact-check your way out of a system designed to reward misinformation. You can’t educate your way around algorithms optimized for polarization. You can’t moderate
... See moreWho's Getting Rich Off Your Attention?
underpinning the zero-friction society is an insidious belief: that every instant that we spend with other people without transacting is a transaction cost getting in the way of efficient market exchange.
Friction: The Cure for a Society Bored to Death
Eventually Maslow realized the gaping hole in his theory: community. (Two of my other favorite topics of human thriving also made the list: lack of dominance and equality) Twenty-three years after he published his hierarchy of needs he wrote:
... See more“… self-actualization is not enough. Personal salvation and what is good for the person alone cannot be























